Item RSP/7/k/16 - Photograph: Electrical Engineering

Photograph showing three students, identified as Leonard White, Albert Powell and Peter Liepmann, looking at a book with machiney behind them.

Labelled on reverse 'Central Office of Information Photograph. Crown Copyright reserved (See Feature Set Into No.210 The Working Man's University: The First Polytechnic. The demand for evening education in Britain far exceeds facilities. After a full day's work a large proportion of the adult population hurry to evening institutes and polytechnics to learn, at a very low cost, the 'know-how' that modern industry and commerce insists of its workers. More than 11,000 people in the evenings, and 2,500 during the day attend courses for further education at the regent Street Polytechnic, where the twelve departments and three craft courses are designed almost exclusively for the vocational student who has reached the age of seventeen (there is no maximum age) and has passed Matriculation or an equivalent University entrance examination.'

Separately labelled 'D.47577 (4) Three men from the same firm are studying Electrical Engineering at the Polytechnic. All three are working for their [External BSc for the University of London] (Higher National certificate awarded by the Institution of Electrical Engineers in Conjunction with the Ministry of Education). Leonard White, on the right, is [the senior] lighting engineer with Ekco-Ensign (Electria Ltd) passed his City and Guilds Illuminating Engineering examination last year. His two colleagues are Albert Powell and Peter Liepmann (centre).' Corrections annotated on the label are given in brackets, crossed out portion in square brackets. There is also pencil notes that corrections were notified to the COI 6-1-50.