hi mowhawk
many thanks for the true as light memory of tuckers
i say true as light as it was very light work indeed and it was a pleasant
yet noisy place to work in ,
my 2nd eldest brother and my self both worked there in 1964 , i was
one of the machine minders whom worked there amongst thousand
workers there was machine shops ,after machine shops with all different
types of machines running, milling machines .capston machines,
it was a very noisy envoironment to work in
and very repitious, i had a row of about twenty five machines
all in one line ,andi had to keep walking up and down the line
for eight hours a day feeding these machines with little rivets in
buckets loads from the top of the machine and they would fall through
into a tray and then i would pull it out and drop them into drums
where a labourer would come along and take them to the inspection
department where my brother with other guys woulld use a micromita
and gauges to see if they pass , [ i should say my department was the
eyelets section ,and not the zipper dept ,]
my section of my machines of twenty five was directly behind
the ground floor third window you see on the photograph of there
building you have posted we had to wear ear muffs all day long
there was a great work team of people whom worked there it was one
big happy family we worked there for years our billy and myself
i have to say the people whom started working there in there
early days was dying about every couple of months
it got to a stage where nearly every couple of fridays the funeral cars
would stop out side them windows for two mins with an ex employee
whom was working there we would be told to stop our machines
by the management to mark our respect some of us stood by our
windows and some with the management go and stand out side
the factory it was a good firm to work for even thou the work was very
repetitious, sweatie and hard going on your feet walking back and
forwards all for eight hours solid be fore going to the loo you had
to get some one to releive you thou,s machine was never aloud
to run out or stop for any reason
me and our kid had good memories of george tuckers
and i had only one bad memory which i have not forgotten
and i will never will .
and that was the planning of a methord to do our foot ball coupon
the treble chance on littlewoods pools
to cut this story short i devised a way to select my numbers
and during those years atv was around them days and each week
on wednesday evening if there was a jack pot pay out
atv , would always interview the out right winner and asked
them how did they select there winning numbers
on that very wednesday evening billy and me never worked over
and always eating out meal . [ tea ] and the winner came on
as usal they asked him what methord did he use to select
the numbers , he was a scotman from scotland
that particular week there was eight teams playing through out
the foot ball coupon on that saturday and i also done that but
never handed my coupon to the agent bill gave his in but i never
so thats why i can never forget old george tuckers of
walsall rd perry barr and this was 1964 ,
once again thanks for the pic and the memory ,
have a nice day everybody astonian ,;;;;
