AS local firms considered moving their pay day forward to Thursday instead of Friday the GWR revealed some amazing facts and figures about pay day at the Swindon works.
On Friday morning a large, fourwheeled iron safe, drawn by a mechanical tractor and escorted by “picked men” made the short journey from the bank to the factory.
According to the report “others precede and follow it, mingling inconspicuously with the ordinary pedestrians.”
The likelihood of a successful hold up was described as being extremely small.
“In the brief space of five minutes – from 12.25 to 12.30 each Friday afternoon, about a ton of money, totalling sometimes close on £50,000, is paid out to the 12,000 employees at the Great Western Railway Works, Swindon,” reported the Evening Advertiser.
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