Abstract :
THE CHAIRMAN, in opening the meeting for discussion, said the paper was most topical. The subject was one which was exercising the ingenuity of many people¿Statesmen, Associations, Federations and Institutions. The result was that there was being presented daily an almost continuous stream of blue-prints, most of which purported to be the ideal plan for this or that in the postwar period. There were many facets to the question of re-establishment; they ranged from the highly scientific to the highly political. He wished to pay tribute to the masterly fashion in which Mr. Bowen had extracted just those which concerned the production engineer. As Chairman of the meeting, he asked contributors to the discussion to confine their remarks to the scope of the Institution because if they confined their remarks to production engineering the maximum benefit from the production engineer´s point of view would be obtained from the discussion.
