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The costing and charging of motor car repairs hardcover 1922 Walter Boyle second edition.
SECOND EDITION.
PUBLISHERS NOTE.
Since The Costing and Charging of Motor Car Repairs" was
first published, the system which it describes has been adopted in its
entirety by a very large number of motor vehicle repairers. Its
use is rapidly spreading throughout the trade, and to-day it may
fairly be called the standard method of costing repair work.
From a great quantity of spontaneous recommendations of the
system which the Publishers have received from users, the following
have been extracted as being representative opinions of its utility
and practicability
……THE COSTING AND CHARGING OF
MOTOR CAR REPAIRS.
OF
PRELIMINARY REMARKS.
THE system which I shall proceed to describe was
designed some eight years ago to meet the require-
ments of a fairly large and rapidly growing car-
repairing establisbment. The majority of the existing
nethods of ascertaining costs, into which I enquired clOsely at
he time, appeared to me to possess certain disadvantages thbat
ondemned them in my mind. There were too many what I
ern 'loose ends' in those systems för them to work smootbly
A business systemn of any kind
must, in my opinion, always consist of a series of steps, each
ne dependent on the last and bound to occur as a matter of
It then becomes merely a
uestion of making the very first step of all a spontaneous one
ar at least of enforcing such conditions as insure that steps
being taken; when the machine is immediately set going and
cannot stop until it has run through its operations and delivered
he finisbed goods. The 'loose ends'" I have mentioned are
nd automatically in practice.
ourse as sOon as its turn arrives.
ahe side tracks to be found in so many systems ; which are not
Dart of a sequence, and butt in upon the main track here and
here, sometimes even disiointing it altogether : or
else suddenly ……..