Not only that but workmen had been wooed by homemade apple pie and regular cuppas into getting power-showers installed, wardrobes built and wallpaper hung in double-quick time.
The thing that your customers will see more than any other, which you hope you will be plastered approvingly across billboards and the internet in double-quick time.
More often than not these double-quick projects were industrial facilities, prompting criticisms that much of the firm's work lacked architectural character.