As a clothing entrepreneur, Jones eventually created one of the most innovative work structures in Australian manufacturing of its day. Mr Jones's life could have been much less industrious, as he demobbed and returned to Australia with the option of a lifelong veteran's pension. Mr Morgan was impressed by Mr Jones choosing a life of hard work rather than a life of welfare payments. Warrnambool's love for Mr Jones stems from his generosity and kindness — the egalitarian practices he put in place and his success at building a successful commercial business that looked after its workers.
Overwhelmingly Mr Jones is remembered and even revered in his town of Warrnambool as a visionary, an egalitarian, a hard worker and community-minded. The town still celebrates his legacy, with young and old participating in Fletcher Jones parades and Christmas garden parties as recently as Even so, when researching for his exhibition, Mr Morgan was able to find at least one occasion when Mr Jones broke from his usual civility. It occurred at a dance in his youth before he had met and married his wife, Rena Jones.
Mr Morgan himself loves to spin a yarn, and told with great mirth the story of the punch-on as rendered in his sculpture The Fight. Mr Jones was afflicted with a stutter that he worked hard to control, and one day in his youth, it was unkindly used against him, as Mr Morgan explained.
Many of them relate to hard work and getting things done — reflecting Jones' values and the way he put his values into practice at his factory. Things like: "develop your imagination — it is the difference between the man and the machine" and "it is the strain that reveals the strength". The website is a community collaboration that brings together oral histories, photographs and memorabilia relating to Jones and his factory. It is led by community activist Julie Eagles, who helped save the landmark Fletcher Jones Factory from falling into forgotten, irredeemable disrepair in recent years.
Ms Eagles told of some of the innovations Mr Jones employed, such as holding stand-up meetings on the factory floor to encourage speed and a thing he called "quality circles", where staff were encouraged to problem solve inefficiencies in the factory. The FJ Stories website gave Mr Morgan the inspiration to create his body of work honouring the life of the visionary and inspiring leader.
The Australian Dictionary of Biography states that when Mr Jones died in , "his enterprise was one of the largest clothing manufacturers in the world, with almost 3, employed in four factories and in 33 stores through every Australian capital city". While the Fletcher Jones brand can still be seen today in shopping centres throughout Australia, it is no longer affiliated with Sir David Fletcher Jones or his estate.
The durable locally-made garments that the brand was known for are now manufactured offshore following the closure of the Warrnambool factory , which was earlier sold off in the s to the Dimmick family.
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View Covid Response. Sales: Service: Parts: A dealership's rating is calculated by averaging scores from reviews received in the past 24 months. Welcome to Audi Fletcher Jones! We attract, nurture, and retain the most talented people in the industry by providing the highest quality work environment where productivity, creativity, and personal and professional growth can flourish. It all started over 75 years ago in when Fletcher Jones Senior met a man on a golf course who would forever change his destiny.
Impressed by how successful the man had become by selling cars, the USC student decided to switch gears from being a law student to becoming an entrepreneur in the burgeoning automotive retail industry. As the years went on, Jones Sr. Within a few years, the decision to sell the fuel-efficient cars would prove fortuitous, as the oil-crisis loomed and Americans began exploring their options for more fuel-efficient vehicles.
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