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IN THE NEW No. 10 “Hydrax” high‐speed gear hobbing machine recently developed by the David Brown Machine Tool Division, Manchester, a number of interesting features have been…
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IN THE NEW No. 10 “Hydrax” high‐speed gear hobbing machine recently developed by the David Brown Machine Tool Division, Manchester, a number of interesting features have been incorporated.
In the last four years, since Volume I of this Bibliography first appeared, there has been an explosion of literature in all the main functional areas of business. This wealth of…
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In the last four years, since Volume I of this Bibliography first appeared, there has been an explosion of literature in all the main functional areas of business. This wealth of material poses problems for the researcher in management studies — and, of course, for the librarian: uncovering what has been written in any one area is not an easy task. This volume aims to help the librarian and the researcher overcome some of the immediate problems of identification of material. It is an annotated bibliography of management, drawing on the wide variety of literature produced by MCB University Press. Over the last four years, MCB University Press has produced an extensive range of books and serial publications covering most of the established and many of the developing areas of management. This volume, in conjunction with Volume I, provides a guide to all the material published so far.
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A NEW metal finishing plant of advanced design has been installed by United and General Engineering (Victoria) Co. Ltd., at the David Brown subsidiary of Harrison, McGregor and…
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A NEW metal finishing plant of advanced design has been installed by United and General Engineering (Victoria) Co. Ltd., at the David Brown subsidiary of Harrison, McGregor and Guest Ltd., of Leigh, Lancashire, where farm implements and sheet metal assemblies of David Brown tractors are made. Its installation has obviated a production bottleneck—existing paint plant facilities were inadequate for rising output—and has been designed to cope with increases in production up to 100%.
David E. Bowen, Raymond P. Fisk, John E.G. Bateson, Leonard L. Berry, Mary Jo Bitner, Stephen W. Brown, Richard B. Chase, Bo Edvardsson, Christian Grönroos, A. Parasuraman, Benjamin Schneider and Valarie A. Zeithaml
A small group of pioneering founders led the creation and early evolution of the service research field. Decades later, this article shares timeless service wisdom from ten of…
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Purpose
A small group of pioneering founders led the creation and early evolution of the service research field. Decades later, this article shares timeless service wisdom from ten of those pioneering founders.
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Bowen and Fisk specified three criteria by which to identify a pioneering founder. In total, 11 founders met the criteria (Bateson, Berry, Bitner, Brown, Chase, Edvardsson, Grönroos, Gummesson, Parasuraman, Schneider and Zeithaml) and were invited to join Bowen and Fisk – founders that also met the criteria as coauthors. Ten founders then answered a set of questions regarding their careers as service scholars and the state of the field.
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Insightful reflections were provided by each of the ten pioneering founders. In addition, based on their synthesis of the reflections, Bowen and Fisk developed nine wisdom themes for service researchers to consider and to possibly act upon.
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The service research field is in its fifth decade. This article offers a unique way to learn directly from the pioneering founders about the still-relevant history of the field, the founders' lives and contributions as service scholars and the founders' hopes and concerns for the service research field.
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Julie Stubbs, Sophie Russell, Eileen Baldry, David Brown, Chris Cunneen and Melanie Schwartz
A special machine tool had to be evolved by the David Brown Automobile Gear Division, Hudders‐field, in order to cut the elliptical gears, illustrated in FIG. 1, eight pairs of…
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A special machine tool had to be evolved by the David Brown Automobile Gear Division, Hudders‐field, in order to cut the elliptical gears, illustrated in FIG. 1, eight pairs of which are used in the flying control mechanism of each Bristol Britannia. Each gear is just under 2½ in. in diameter, with 71 teeth of 30 d.p. on each ½ in. outer face. There is a difference of 0·14 in. between the major and minor axes. The inner serrations serve to match the centres which are themselves eccentric in that they are bored ½ in. off centre.
Farmer, huntsman and one‐time business entrepreneur, John King would seem to typify the capitalist figure. But behind his current chairmanship of Babcock and Wilcox—the £126m…
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Farmer, huntsman and one‐time business entrepreneur, John King would seem to typify the capitalist figure. But behind his current chairmanship of Babcock and Wilcox—the £126m engineering and contracting group —lies a diverse (and sometimes stormy) career which began as a social experiment in a depressed Yorkshire mining area. Ken Gooding reports.
An entirely new gear lubricant announced by Shell‐Mex and B.P. known as Shell Tivela Compound A, makes it possible, for the first time, to seal industrial gearboxes for the whole…
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An entirely new gear lubricant announced by Shell‐Mex and B.P. known as Shell Tivela Compound A, makes it possible, for the first time, to seal industrial gearboxes for the whole of their effective life. The compound was developed in cooperation with Shell Research Ltd. and David Brown Gear Industries Ltd. who are now offering adaptable Radicon speed reducers that are sealed for life.
The present Gear Divisions Library of David Brown Industries Ltd, has been in operation since the late 1920s. Although its history is chequered with periods of relative inactivity…
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The present Gear Divisions Library of David Brown Industries Ltd, has been in operation since the late 1920s. Although its history is chequered with periods of relative inactivity its growth has been, in general terms, continual. In its early days the technical interests it had to serve were more varied than at present and ranged mainly over gears, machine tools and foundry practice. In 1951 the company decided to ‘divisionalize’ its growing interests in that the activities of the parent works were restricted to the design and manufacture of gears and gear units. This reorganization also restricted the subject interests of the library, which tended more and more over the next five years to serve the Development Department, of which it formed one part, and even then to provide little more than book and periodicals services.