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Rowntree York Experienced

Rowntree York ExperiencedKarin Serin
  • Saturday 13 June 2015, 11.00AM to 3pm
  • Free admission
    No booking required
  • Mansion House, St Helens Square (map)

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Come and try out some of the pioneering dexterity and psychometric tests that the Rowntree Society has recreated for would-be employees at Rowntrees, based on original materials.  You are likely to discover that it is far harder nowadays to do certain manual tasks in a fixed amount of time than in was 50 years ago.

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