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APPENDIX A. 
i.—Cases in which Profit-sharing now Exists (according 
TO THE INFORMATION AVAILABLE AT 1ST AUGUST, 1912). 
The letters in column 4 signify as follows:—C.—paid in Cash; 
P.—paid to a Provident Fund or in pensions, or retained by firm to 
encourage thrift; C.P.=paid partly as C. and partly as P. ; S.= 
invested in shares in the undertaking ; C.S.=paid partly as C. and 
partly as S.; S.C.=paid as S. for a prescribed period or until 
employee has a prescribed holding, then partly as S. and partly as C., 
S.P.=paid partly as S. and partly as P. 
No. 
Date 
of 
adop 
tion 
of 
Profit- 
sharing 
Name and Address of Firm. 
(Certain firms who wished 
to remain anonymous 
are indicated by letters, 
chosen at random.) 
Nature of Business and 
how Bonus is paid. 
(See note at head of Table.) 
Number 
of Em 
ployees 
in 1911. 
Num 
ber of 
em 
ployees 
entitled 
to par 
ticipate 
on Dec. 
31,1911. 
1 
1865 
“J.J.” 
Manufacture, C. 
163 
163 
2 
1866 
Fox, Bros. & Co., Ltd., 
Wellington, Somerset 
The Colne Fishery Board, 
Colchester. 
Woollen manufacturers, 
C. 
1561 
239 
3 
1870 
Oyster producers and 
sellers, C. 
8-190 
423« 
4 
1872 
“ R. P.” 
Bookbinding and sta 
tionery works, C. 
250 
40 
6 
1873 
Agricultural and Horti 
cultural Association, 
Ltd., 92, Long Acre, 
W.C. 
Supply and manufacture 
of artificial manure, 
oil cakes, seeds, &c., 
C.P. 
195-325 
195 
3 
1876 
Women’s Printing So 
ciety, 31, Brick Street, 
Piccadilly, W. 
Printing, C 
53 
51 
7 
1876 
Tollesbury & Mersea 
(Blackwater) Oyster 
Fishery Co., Ltd., 
Tollesbury, Witham. 
Oyster merchants and 
planters, O.f 
14-83 
466° 
8 
18781 
Sir W. G. Armstrong, 
Whitworth & Co., Ltd., 
Elswick Works, New- 
castle-on-Tyne. 
Shipbuilding, engineer 
ing and ordnance 
manufacture, C. 
15,812- 
15,953 
2,238 
9 
1878 
Cassell & Co., Ltd., La 
Belle Sauvage, Lud- 
gate Hill, E.C. 
“T. L.”... 
Printing, publishing, and 
bookbinding. P. 
1,150- 
1,200 
1,175 
10 
1881 
Manufacture, C. 
230 
173 
11 
1882 
Brooke, Bond, & Co., 
Ltd., Goulston Street, 
Aldgate East, E. 
Tea blending and pack 
ing. C.P.§ 
570-636 
459 
12 
1883 
Fidler & Sons, Royal 
Berkshire Seed Stores, 
Reading. 
Seedsmen, potato 
growers, farmers, and 
fruit salesmen. C. 
40-60 
36 
13 
1884 
“ E E.” ... 
Manufacture. C. 
53 
26 
14 
1884 
Blundell, Spence, & Co., 
Ltd, Hull. 
Colour, paint and varnish 
manufacture, oil boil 
ing and refining. C. 
803-840 
600 
15 
1886]| 
Hazell, Watson, & Yiney, 
Ltd., London and 
Aylesbury. 
Printers and book 
binders. C. 
1,400 
207 
* Employed in rotation. 
t There is a Provident Fund for Widows and Orphans of employees to which the General 
Meeting of the shareholders allots such sums as it thinks fit (about 2 per cent, of divisiblo 
Profits.) 
1 Adopted about 1878 in the Manchester business of Sir Joseph Whitworth & Co., Ltd. 
a nd continued after some modification by Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., Ltd. ’ 
>§ C. until June, 1903. || See p. 64.