This industrial training handbook covers the following areas: preparatory considerations; training methods and techniques; training for specific functions; and established organizations. Part I examines the extension and re-designing of technical colleges since the 1920's and the present integration of the work of colleges with the needs of industry. Topics treated in this section are: Effective Use of Manpower; The Industrial Training Act; Industry and the Technical Colleges; and The Training Function in the Working Organization. Part II deals with effective recruitment and selection; interviewing techniques; job analysis; initiating, planning, and time-tabling of training; the cost and evaluation of training; and operational research. Part III treats the use of the concept approach, programed learning, audiovisual aids, lecturing, group discussion, projects, and case studies. The wide range of areas covered in the fourth part includes: management, supervisory, technical graduate, technician, safety, and apprenticeship training. The final section includes the origins and objectives, history and composition of established organizations -- British Association for Commercial and Industrial Education, British Institute of Management, and City and Guilds of London, among others. (nl)