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Despile the war the company developed. in 1940 the pen sion scheme was introduced and in 1943 came the first company dinner to celebrate 20 years of management by G.V. Wynne-Jones and commemorate company progress and war efforts. A bonus scheme of half a weeks pay at Christmas was Inoughit in and rationing problems were eased by food parcels sent by our Australian agents and Stamford. U.S.A employees. In December 1945 a branch office was opened in Manchester with Mr JO. Wilson as brst branch manager The same month a redesigned Mid4el to be known as Simplex was introduced arid was to piove as popular as Isp, edeLessot As world-wide activities and the product range expanded ii became obvious that iniforimty of image was vital. So in the U K alter 38 years of tradiriq as Universal Postal Frank*irs Ltd.. new name was introduced - Pitney Bowits Liintied. In October 1960 Mr W H Wheelei officially opened tIre new London olfiec in Totleiiliam Court Road The fol lowing your the Veterans Club was formed and in Novein her 1903 a now idea in rna’iagor,ient-employee relations - Pie Council ul Personnel Relations - was introduced. Meanwhile exp;irrsron went on intl despile extensions the Edmonton offices and factories could not cope So the company considered the advantages of New Town dove loprmicrits. looking at Crawley. Bracknell, Basildon, Hemel Homnpstead and their eventual choice - Harlow The Htar low headquarters were officially opened on 14th Novem be’ 1963 - i To keep employees - some commuting from Edmonton, others new to Harlow - informed about developments, the Managing Director’s Newsletter was started followed in September 1966 by the employees own magazine. P El Mail now known as the newspaper P.S. News. Meanwhile the company was developing iii a new light and a significant step In the shedding ol the restrictive the postage meter people image was the company’s entry in 1967 into the electrostatic copier field with their Model 250-- the first in a range of desk-top moderately priced copiers. In the same year Mr. S 1 Roberts retired as rnariaqiiig director on lie anniversary of his Joining tire cortlpany when formed 45 years earlier He continued as vicechairman on the board while Mr T J Gilligan. assistant managing director, slipped up as managing director In April 1969 the lactory extension was completed to cope with increasing home and export orders and cii the war ri front a three-pronged division was made lie Arirericas and South Pacific covered by Stamford, Eastern Europe under Adrema Pitney Howes, Germany, and Western Europe under Pitney Bowes Limited In this our Golden Jubilee our range includes postage meters copiers. acldresser printers en’bossers. letter openers, alders. inserters. collators. nail opening, sealing ‘rid weiyliing eqiiipmenl, counting, coding arid ,n11,rriiiirig machinery And looking forward 5 the newly added cmi’ systems equipment now part ola range developed through years of experience with customers and from the skills of loyal employees The toregoing was a special cover bearing the date 18 MAY / 1972 as impressed by a Pitney Bowes Model A postage meter. The year 1922 was the introduction of meters in Great Britain. Inside the cover was an illustrated booklet reproduced above, less the photographs. Our Canadian and US branches apparently decided to ignore this anniversary. A survey of 54 postage meter covers in 1956 showed the following serial blocks in use at the time. lype 7 Fype 8 Type 11 Type 14 Serial Number Serial Number Serial Number Serial Number Block Covers Block Covers Block Covers Block Covers 47000 16 54000 14 1000 IS 240000 56 48000 7 140000 46 50000 3 82000 9 83000 11 84000 14 143000 144000 145000 146000 147000 148000 150000 54 42 50 32 46 48 42 41.9
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