During World War II Briggs, in addition to their own two factories, developed and operated seven factories for the various Ministries and met their requirements in quantity and on time. Production figures are in the hands of the Ministries concerned. 23,000 work people were employed at the peak of production during this period. To relieve the desperately congested conditions at the Dagenham factories the Conpany is negotiating for the purchase of a small building of 24,000 sq. These preises have limited facilities and will provide only a meagre amount of addjtional space at exhorbitant cost.
Workers are subject to unsatisfactory and dangerous conditions.
Overhead Conveyors are dangerously overloaded due to unloading being impossible at storage points. Congestion is causing labour inefficiency, excessive material wastage, and consequent high costs. Non Productive labour wouJd be made available for productive work. Extensive installations of conveyors and other improvements carried out in the past two years have reduced the number of non productive workers but these improvements have been more. Factory hours agreed by the Trade Unions is 44 hours per week.