A Dictionary of Occupational Terms Based on the Classification of Occupations used in the Census of Population, 1921.
ORDER XV.—WORKERS IN WOOD AND FURNITURE
Sub-order 1.—Workers in Wood
483.—Shop Fitters
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- bank fitter, bar fitter, beer machine case fitter, office fitter
- as for shop fitter.
- shop fitter
- receives wooden parts or sections of counters, desks, partitions, cupboards, shelves, shop fronts, facias, shutters and other shop fittings or of bank, office, public house bars and bar fittings, which have usually been prepared or partly prepared, i.e., planed, moulded, cut into lengths, etc., by wood-working machinist (486) q.v. or by shop fitter's joiner (474) q.v.; fits and joins these parts or sections together by cutting, dovetailing, morticing, tenoning, grooving, jointing, dowelling, moulding, planing, etc., according to prepared plans or designs, and attaches grilles, hinges, door springs, locks and other metal fittings thereto; may be employed either entirely in workshop or entirely on outside work, i.e. erecting in situ, or partly in one and partly in the other.
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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. 