Mechanical Engineering (Production Methods)

HC Deb 27 February 1973 vol 851 cc312-3W

35. Mr. David Price

asked the Secretary of State for Employment what research he is sponsoring into the relative economies and diseconomies of assembly line production over batch production in the mechanical engineering industry.

Mr. Dudley Smith

No research is sponsored directly by my Department into the relative merits of different ways of organising work—of which assembly line and batch production methods are two—in the mechanical engineering industry.