A Dictionary of Occupational Terms Based on the Classification of Occupations used in the Census of Population, 1921.

ORDER XXII.—PERSONS EMPLOYED IN TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATION

Sub-order 4.—Other Workers in Transport and Communication

769.—Other Workers (not elsewhere enumerated)

electric truck driver; motor truck driver: a porter (759) q.v. who uses and controls an electric truck in conveying goods, stores, etc., from one part of works, warehouse, etc., to another.
hydrogen worker: general term for workers producing hydrogen for airships, including stokers (951), water gas operators (953), hydrogen bench attendants (148), engine tenters (950), purifier attendants (698), and valve men (698) q.v.
motor truck driver: see electric truck driver.
pneumatic operator (G.P.O.): see tube attendant (Post Office).
tape attendant: renews tape-roll as required, tears off tape separate items of information and sends by messenger to appropriate news department of newspaper office, etc.; in clubs, hotels, etc., pins sections of printed tape on notice board.
tube attendant (Post Office and other establishments) ; pneumatic operator (G.P.O.): receives carriers (containing bundles of telegrams or other documents) issuing from pneumatic tube, through which carriers travel from branch offices to head office or from one part of building to another; distributes them, by hand or through tube, to appropriate section despatches carriers through tube by pulling lever which produces pneumatic action necessary for setting carrier in motion down tube.

From: A Dictionary of Occupational Terms Based on the Classification of Occupations used in the Census of Population, 1921,
Ministry of Labour, 1927. Digitised by Peter Christian, August, 2016. This text is in the Public Domain.