Volume Eight - Pre-Victorian to the present day - more aspects - Shipwright's Working Rules and Price List - 1937 - 1959

Part III continues at length and in incredible detail with the applicable piecework rules and rates for working. The prices in the 1959 version were related directly to the original version i.e. 'The prices shown in the 1937 Price List shall be increased by 100% . . . .' There are about 40 pages of these rules and prices so I have selected a few of these on the following pages to provide a flavour of the diversity and complexity of the pricing systems in place. It must have been a clerk's nightmare, keeping an accurate tally of work undertaken, especially as the only devices available at that time were a pen (or pencil) and paper!