Hi Mike
The name Geoff Bond does ring a bell. I was in 2DO annexe and knew a few people in 2DO and 3DO downstairs.
Regards
Alan
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The name Geoff Bond does ring a bell. I was in 2DO annexe and knew a few people in 2DO and 3DO downstairs.
Regards
Alan
Stan Clives was 2DO I believe. Heavy switchgear end of the drawing office Electric Avenue end. Not a tall man but a very pleasant one. Yeah, pushing carts and washing tea cups. Let's face it; becoming competent in engineering design is the product of most of a lifetimes work and an apprenticeship is just the blink of an eye. It's not possible to experience and become knowledgeable about a great many aspects of mechanical engineering design in a lifetime but not moving around will limit ones knowledge to the few aspects of one industry. I suspect that most good designers are at their peak when they are close to retirement. The advent of CAD has reduced the more tiresome repetetive aspects of DO work but perhaps the person sitting at the keyboard has become invisible to company controllers, even supposing that he/she ever was visible,....it all happens in the computer...hmmm with no input. I don't think I would do the same if I had my time over...far too little relative reward for the key players in general. That is the nature of the job.
I thought I recognised him, but thought he was someone else. Was it Patton or Parton though? My dad knew him quite well, but he worked in Transformer, so I don't know how.
Ray Griffiths
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Hi Folks.
looking through the loft again found this old picture of BIG shop at the GEC Witton 350 MW Tilbury Rotor fitting insulation lugs to main rotor body.
Hi Folks.
looking through the loft again found this old picture of BIG shop at the GEC Witton 350 MW Tilbury Rotor fitting insulation lugs to main rotor body.
Hi Dave , I hope you havn't forgot your fellow apprentices in the training centre . Tish Chagar , Phil Lewis , Dave Smith , Mark Daly , Roy Hadgkiss , Ray Cross , Ian Boyce , Carl Shakespeare , Richard Howlett , Neil Knight , David McCarthy and myself Rob Edwards !!!!! I've still got the apprentice group photo but you wasn't on it as you went on your Duke Of Edinburgh course at that time. Many Happy times there !!..............Rob
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Hello Robert , I was available for photos that day , but copyright laws did not allow me to be photographed in overalls .Haha .
You forgot Terrance Dowdy da rasta .
Tejpal alias Tish ( he hated that )alias Phill Lynott .
Yes I remember them all vividly .
Have you seen any of them ?? I haven't.
You forgot Terrance Dowdy da rasta .
Tejpal alias Tish ( he hated that )alias Phill Lynott .
Yes I remember them all vividly .
Have you seen any of them ?? I haven't.
The Baron
master brummie
Rob what year was that ? & can you post the pic ? please.
Hi There , The photo was taken around about May time in 1980. The apprentices from left to right are Phil Lewis , Tish Chagar , Richard Howlett , Roy Hadgkiss , Dave Smith , Dave McCarthy , Ray Cross , Mark Daly , Ian Boyce , Rob Edwards , Carl Shakespeare , Neil Knight..........Front row seated .. Arthur Blake (Instructor) Dennis Ryland (Training Centre Supervisor) , Freddie Payne ( Apprentice Supervisor ) and Cyril Evans (Instructor ) View attachment 68873
Hi Jean , the name doesn't spring to mind , which department did he work in ?. I worked in the light machine shop with the likes of Vic Darby , Pete Winstone , Keith Roberts , Lenny Harrison , Stan James , Harry Doubleday to name but a few. I then worked in the Heavy Machine shop as a marker outer/ machinist up until I was made redundant in september 1984. In the H/M shop worked Steve Shaw , Alan Woodward , Archie Rodway , Mark 'Harry' Yarrington , Gordon Whitehouse , Dave Owen , Gary Sharpe , Paul Storer and the unforgettable Charlie Short and his father Sid
Did you know Bert Wall by any chance? He was a foreman in Transformer. His manager was Povey (can't remember his first name). He also was an umpire for the GEC cricket team for several years. He also played snooker around that time at the Magnet Club and won a few tea sets.
I can remember a few names from the cricket team. Paddy Ryan, Tommy Owens, the Cotton brothers (Tommy and Bernard) Len Boyman, Cox, Peakman, Thompson
Yes, he was a foreman, and worked there from 1934 until about 1962. He didn't have a brother.
Hi Jean, the name is vaguely familiar, but that's all I'm afraid. I was asking about Bert Wall really because I remember him as the umpire for the GEC cricket club. I used to score for them when I was still at school around 1960/1963. We had some good away trips at places like Bourne, Bishops Castle. GEC Coventry and Wembley. Anyone out there play for the cricket club back then, and go on any of these away excursions?
