i think it would have been 87 or lion works pressings but it wasnt called lion works pressing that i can remember but i cant remember what it was called as i was only there a few months
omg omg i think you have unearthed the diamond ,,,, ....the names escape me still but thats too co-incidental for it to not be the place that I worked in the 80s ... they must have been in their last few months of their lease of the workshop when I was there .....i cant think of anywhere else that it could have been so it must be the couple that I worked for . I dont know where they got 80 people from they they say were affected as there was literally just those two and me in our workshop . It would be amazing now to find out what happened to them after that and where they ended up , maybe it was part of the demolition plans for those buildings the reason they had to vacate , i dont remember them mentioning anything to me about this situation though . So id say this is nailed on that its the place that i worked at ....youre a superstar .
well done indeed yes ,,,,,,what a great little community this place is ,,,,so helpful
what did the rest of the article say janice just out of curiosity ?? , also how could I trace this couple and or their children as I know that they had at least one daughter . I seem to remember them mentioning a school called either Longmeadow or Swanshurst so that must be where the family lived . Also from what I remember Frank used to be the master craftsman in setting up all the tools and engineering and Jackie was the organisation of the day to day business and administration . The small components the article mentions were aluminium , very very similar to this image but with a knurled flat face .
I'll find and post the rest of the article.
thanks Janice soooo much ,,,,ill have a good read of that
Banks engineering ...that was it ,,,,brilliant find this is ,,,,cant believee youve found something , its too much of a co incidence to be anyone else but the guys i worked for
it was one of the two ,,,,and it makes sense they had girls and those two oare girls schools
That was after i worked there i think ...I was doing machining work on capstans and millers and lathes ,,,and my wages were deffo in the £20 plus a week region , maybe the valdo products was the offshoot business that made the scooters etc
im going to say they went to swanshurst
