Item RSP/7/k/17 - Photograph: Electrical Engineering

Photograph showing four students, looking at a plan and using equipment. Three of the students are identified as Leonard White, Albert Powell and Peter Liepmann. The fourth is unidentified.

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.47578 (5) Leonard White, Albert Powell and Peter Liepmann are all studying Electrical Engineering at the Polytechnic. They work together as lighting engineers at Ekco-Ensign (Electrica Ltd) where their departmenal head is Frank Hulsoop, M.I.B.E., who took his [degree] (diploma) at the Polytechnic before the war'. Corrections annotated on the label are given in brackets, crossed out portion in square brackets. There is also a pencil note that corrections were notified to the COI 6-1-50.