Pay
     Pay during training ranges from almost £3 per week at the age of 15 to nearly £9 a week at the age of 20; there are annual increases on birthdays. After training, a craftsman receives about £11 15s. 0d. a week; promotional prospects are chargehand with about £650 a year and foreman with up to almost £900 a year, depending on responsibility. Rates are a little higher in London. For full details please write to one of the addresses on the next page.

Conditions
     Conditions of service are negotiated nationally and include holidays with pay, sickness benefit and superannuation schemes, the last being voluntary for manual employees. At most working centres there is a pleasant canteen and after work there are opportunities for sports and social activities. There are joint consultative committees in which management and staffs pool ideas on many aspects of the Board’s work, including improving efficiency.

Prospects
     A craft apprentice who shows promise and before the age of 20 gains an appropriate qualification or a City and Guilds Technician’s Certificate by part-time study may be transferred to a student apprenticeship.
     After training, the Board encourages craftsmen to develop their skills to the full. Residential courses run at its training establishment in Buxton, Derbyshire, provide valuable experience and there are also internal correspondence tuition schemes. Moreover, under the Manual Worker Traineeship Scheme, an exceptional instrument mechanic who has successfully completed part of the Ordinary National Certificate can obtain one-day release each week to continue the course and then proceed to the Higher National Certificate in electrical engineering. He may thus become an instrument engineer.
     Release may also be given to study for a Higher National Diploma, probably leading to Associate Membership of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, or the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Special practical training is arranged to fit in with the theoretical studies and the scheme enables persons to qualify themselves for posts on the technical staff. Another opportunity for advancement is provided by the Electricity Supply Industry Scholarship Scheme under which a person can attend a full-time course at university or technical college.

     The power system of the Central Electricity Generating Board is the largest under unified control in the world. It generates electricity at 231 power stations and transmits it through over 7,000 route miles of grid lines. Administrative control is divided between a Central Headquarters at London, five Regions and nine Divisions. There are also three Project Groups concerned with power station construction, a Transmission Project Group and a large and expanding Research and Development Department.