One of the original members of the Buying Department, Hewitt is a congenial co-worker. He was quick to take control of the department during a prolonged absence by Fudge but is otherwise content to rub along with the other clerks.

He is just as wily as Bristow - here he is in action:

One up to Hewitt
Fudge thought he spent too much time watching the clock so he changed the position of his desk
Not that he gained anything by it
Hewitt is out today with a stiff neck
strip 38, April 62

Or perhaps that should be not in action.

Hewitt seems to have been responsible for introducing Bristow to the craft of making paper aeroplanes. Bristow takes some pleasure in destroying his latest creation, ironically describing it as childish.

Extract from strip 177

Loyalty doesn't count for much in the Buying Department. Bristow's dramatic announcement that he is about to walk out and never come back induces a rather mercernary response from Hewitt and Jones strip 2608.

Hewitt shares one of Bristow's less pleasant characteristics - but you can probably blame this one on the Buying Department ethos strip 3631.

In the radio series, Hewitt was presented as a young, keen and relatively fresh worker. This does not really convince. Given the chance to watch the firm's founder on television, here is the real Hewitt.