What has a Stationery Department to do with TECHNOLOGY, you ask? A good question, but Martins’ final technological leap before merging with Barclays is to open state of the art premises at Birkenhead, which are equipped with the latest technology for producing in-house items of stationery, cheques and publications. A further phase of building will provide a regional stationery facility for Barclays. You can also visit the following stationery related features:
		CUSTOMER STATIONERY				STATIONERY DEPARTMENT OLD HALL STREET
Stationery Department Crosses the Mersey
1969 Looking more like a large cardboard box than a factory, is perhaps appropriate for a Stationery Department…
keeping the branches supplied with stationery is a mammoth task and one that was becoming increasingly difficult from the cramped Old Hall Street premises in Liverpool.
The Duplomat Camera			Vacuum Counting Machine
The new Stationery Department building across the Mersey in Birkenhead came into operation in December and has been tailor-made for storing, packing and printing the vast range of stationery. Over 3,000 items are maintained in stock and the staff of thirty-five is kept busy dealing not only with the annual requisitions from branches but with supplementary orders which average more than fifty a day.
Orders Department			Storage and Packing Bay
Demand for items of stationery is uneven and fluctuations are mysteriously unpredictable; this creates the problem of keeping enough stock on hand to meet branch needs.
Printing Department			Litho Print Department
					The Department does some of its own printing and both letterpress and litho methods are used. Soon it will have the machinery for personalising cheques. Already work has begun on a second phase of the building which is expected ultimately to become a regional Stationery Department for the Barclays Group.
The staff Canteen
Internal Processing Bank staff, like customers had their own mountain of paperwork to contend with, and at a time when computers did relatively little to lighten the load, many everyday branch processes had their own stationery to guide the staff. Stationery Department provided the following items to order…
VOUCHERS TO DEBIT OR CREDIT A CUSTOMER’S ACCOUNT
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	SPECIAL VOUCHERS FOR STANDING ORDERS, AND TO MAKE CLAIMS ON OTHER BRANCHES AND BANKS
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