'Modern Industry and National
Character '-I
Lt. Col. Sir HERBERT AUSTIN , K.B.E.
THIS EVENING'S BROADCAST is to be the first of four talks on the same subject, but each will be given from a different point of view. Over a period of four weeks the problem of the effect of Industry on National Character is to be discussed by an employer of industry, a working man, a working woman, and a social worker.
Lieut.-Col. Sir Herbert Austin is
Chairman of the Austin Motor Car Co. Ltd., and of the Wolseley Machine Co. Ltd. He served his apprenticeship to engineering at Langlands Foundry, Melbourne ; managed several small works there ; came over to England in 1890 to control the manufacture of the Wolseley Sheep Shearing Machine ; and was made a director in 1900. It was not until 1905 that he manufactured the first motor-car on his own account, at Longbridge Works, Northfield, Birmingham, but there is no one who has not heard of the Austin car today.
Next Monday a working man is to give his views.