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RefNoK1383/A/26
AltRefNo1383/26
TitleRecords of the General Manager of Papworth Industries
DescriptionShortly after the Colony moved to Papworth in 1918, H.C. Crohill, a patient and discharged solider [see 1383/2/3/33] was appointed Business Manager to run the workshops and market the goods produced. He is presumably identical with the Harold of H.C. Crohill who continued to handle Varrier-Jones' personal insurance matters as an employee of the Norwich Union in Cambridge, living in Quy then Waterbeach [see 1383/7/6/5/20, 1383/7/10/3]. He was followed in 1925 by Charles Boivin and in 1929 by Ernest Rice.. Boivin and Rice were also ex-patients, Boivin dying in office and Rice taking his own life in 1934.

From 1927 the Papworth and Enham industries had been under a single management based at Papworth. The resident manager at Enham was Bertram Tallyn, who had been a patient and then a colonist at Papworth in 1921-1925, when he had been sent to Preston Hall, the British Legion training centre, to reorganise the workshops there. In 1934 he stepped into Rice's shoes at Papworth. A measure of the growing significance of the post is the Annual Report for 1935, the first year in which sales topped £100,000 for the first time, and which carried a report supplied by the General Manager.
CreatorNameVarrier-Jones Papers
RepositoryCambridgeshire Archives
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