[BITList] Emma

[HUGH]

Frank,

You've set me thinking on colours.  Alex Hunter, the foreman coppersmith in 
Kincaids, wore a "khaki" coat. His counterpart in Scotts wore a suit. But 
they weren't engineers. Office staff in both places, when their duties took 
them into the shops, didn't change their dress, though Kincaid DO staff 
sometimes put on a boiler suit if climbing onto an engine was forecast. The 
colour was irrelevant, but mostly dark blue. Kvaerner issued DO staff with a 
white boiler suit with company logo on it, then (or the other way about) 
with a grey one.  I've still got both - I left the white hard hat behind. 
Neil Bell, the overall head foreman fitter in Kincaids, wore a dark blue 
serge jacket and striped trousers, hard collar and tie, and a bowler hat. 
The head foreman in each of the two erecting shops wore white boiler suits, 
as did their assistants, but none of them wore bunnets - only journeymen 
fitters wore bunnets.  All below the rank of foreman wore dark blue boiler 
suits. Shop managers wore suits and ties and soft hats.  A regular (topical 
word) kaleidoscope of colour.

Hugh.