Car dealer gets a telling off - 1962 style
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av185 said:
Clearly Mr Hill should have replied to Mr Rossiter expressing his concern and alarm over the poor and irregular spacing of the words in his bosses letter.
It's just a hunch but I expect Mr Rossiter would've been strutting around the office dictating this aloud to his secretary while she typed it out. ingenieur said:
av185 said:
Clearly Mr Hill should have replied to Mr Rossiter expressing his concern and alarm over the poor and irregular spacing of the words in his bosses letter.
It's just a hunch but I expect Mr Rossiter would've been strutting around the office dictating this aloud to his secretary while she typed it out. His secretary does indeed seem to struggle with spacings. But she's no doubt an attractive young filly.
ingenieur said:
av185 said:
Clearly Mr Hill should have replied to Mr Rossiter expressing his concern and alarm over the poor and irregular spacing of the words in his bosses letter.
It's just a hunch but I expect Mr Rossiter would've been strutting around the office dictating this aloud to his secretary while she typed it out. 
av185 said:
Clearly Mr Hill should have replied to Mr Rossiter expressing his concern and alarm over the poor and irregular spacing of the words in his bosses letter.
Apparently the additional spacing was taught to secretaries from that period.See the second reply here
In summary:
"As indicated by the answers, it was taught to every secretary during the days of typewriters. By at least the 1960s, it was two (2) spaces at the end of each sentence, regardless of the ending punctuation, and after every colon and one space after words and other mid-sentence punctuation.
This practice remained in place regardless of the change in typewriters. In the early 1970s, IBM produced the Executive electric typewriter with variable spacing — each letter or character had the exact space it requires (https:/www.-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/modelb/modelb_milestone.html). For example, the “i” occupied one space while larger letters, like the “m” and “w,” occupied four spaces, so, if you had to backspace over several letters to make a correction, you had to hit the backspace key four times for the “W,” one space for the “i” and two or three spaces for other letters. Nonetheless, two spaces always followed sentences and colons."
Monkeylegend said:
Could somebody just nip down there and see if Mr Hill has taken note.
I would love to have seen the grovelling reply.
No, he hasn't. No Rootes cars on display at all. Shocking.I would love to have seen the grovelling reply.
https://goo.gl/maps/4SLqP1ygF7mRWT7Z6
No ideas for a name said:
Monkeylegend said:
Could somebody just nip down there and see if Mr Hill has taken note.
I would love to have seen the grovelling reply.
No, he hasn't. No Rootes cars on display at all. Shocking.I would love to have seen the grovelling reply.
https://goo.gl/maps/4SLqP1ygF7mRWT7Z6
Wacky Racer said:
I was in a posh Audi dealership in the North West, and the salesman told me Audi do spot checks, (Secret shopper) and if there was a light bulb out in the very high ceiling they would get "marked down".
There wasn't any out as it happened.
Did you quickly develop a sense of quality at that precise moment and feel good about the idea of buying a new Audi? I bet he tells every customer. There wasn't any out as it happened.
TonyRPH said:
av185 said:
Clearly Mr Hill should have replied to Mr Rossiter expressing his concern and alarm over the poor and irregular spacing of the words in his bosses letter.
Apparently the additional spacing was taught to secretaries from that period.See the second reply here
In summary:
"As indicated by the answers, it was taught to every secretary during the days of typewriters. By at least the 1960s, it was two (2) spaces at the end of each sentence, regardless of the ending punctuation, and after every colon and one space after words and other mid-sentence punctuation.
This practice remained in place regardless of the change in typewriters. In the early 1970s, IBM produced the Executive electric typewriter with variable spacing — each letter or character had the exact space it requires (https:/www.-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/modelb/modelb_milestone.html). For example, the “i” occupied one space while larger letters, like the “m” and “w,” occupied four spaces, so, if you had to backspace over several letters to make a correction, you had to hit the backspace key four times for the “W,” one space for the “i” and two or three spaces for other letters. Nonetheless, two spaces always followed sentences and colons."
Being a stickler for tradition I shall immediately introduce such a test to assess whether my PA is suitable for the post of serving me.
Wacky Racer said:
I was in a posh Audi dealership in the North West, and the salesman told me Audi do spot checks, (Secret shopper) and if there was a light bulb out in the very high ceiling they would get "marked down".
There wasn't any out as it happened.
Pity.There wasn't any out as it happened.
Take your ladders next time posing as a trademan shin up and unscrew a few lightbulbs for a laugh.
Pretty sure my dad got a car from there back in the 80s, it's now a BP garage.
https://goo.gl/maps/xQhn519itzGvQLXc6
https://goo.gl/maps/xQhn519itzGvQLXc6
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