| Level | Item |
| Ref No | OHP/62 |
| Title | Tom Peak |
| Date | 12 March 1998 |
| Extent | 1 audio tape, 1 cd, 1 file, 1 AIFF file (793.1 MB) |
| Creator Name | Peak; Tom P; personnel manager GMG |
| Description | Interview with Tom Peak, personnel manager for the Guardian. Conducted by Leslie Plommer on 12 March 1998. Also includes a data sheet containing biographical details about the subject and information about the recording.
Summary contents of interview (with rough timings):
Disc 1:
Track 1
01.00 Joined company in 1959 and subsequent career history
07.00 Company's attitude towards its employees, equal pay for women, jobs-for-life, wages
14.00 Ways of saving money - switching over generators for Manchester Evening News (MEN)
15.00 On dropping of Manchester from the name
18.00 Describes machine room at Cross Street
19.30 Nepotism - getting jobs at MEN
22.30 Describes the wire room - department run in a very old fashioned way
25.00 Accounts and ads
34.00 Production side
37.00 Economies in 1967
43.00 Canteen culture and the influence of the Scotts
45.00 Remembers Charles Scott
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| Access Status | Open |
| Access Conditions | Access to recording via GNM Digital Repository |
| Format | Electronic record |
| CD recording |
| Printed document |
| Tape recording |
| Copyright | Guardian News & Media Ltd and Tom Peak |
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