Hi Everyone, I worked at Brandauers for 13 years in the drawing office between 1963 and 1981.
My father worked there and many of my uncle's as well. Dad knew Ian Pettit and Garth Pettit, as well as Tony Edwards-Jones. The design of multi stage tooling was exacting work but they were tough years but very enjoyable. If you worked at Brandauers you could get a job any where.
Hi Everyone, I worked at Brandauers for 13 years in the drawing office between 1963 and 1981.
My father worked there and many of my uncle's as well. Dad knew Ian Pettit and Garth Pettit, as well as Tony Edwards-Jones. The design of multi stage tooling was exacting work but they were tough years but very enjoyable. If you worked at Brandauers you could get a job any where.
.22 air rifles or not i wouldnt have hung around to shoot the rats
a school friend of mine from lozells girls used to work there...pretty sure she was in the offices..sometimes we would meet up for a drink at the lamplighter pub just round the corner...happy days
lyn
.22 air rifles or not i wouldnt have hung around to shoot the rats
a school friend of mine from lozells girls used to work there...pretty sure she was in the offices..sometimes we would meet up for a drink at the lamplighter pub just round the corner...happy days
lyn
You know BHF and Last of the Summer Wine are quite a temptation. Well, there is all the mention of pubs, pies, (pasties this way) and crusty cheese rolls - you can keep the spicy stuff and the fast food - except for fish or sausage and chips of course The three old guys (Last of tsw) managed four pints and a chaser tonight!! I think they eased off a little as the series ran on. The RAF found me in many pubs and bars, but the Fire Service made me almost teetotal. I made a rule never to drink and drive, so as I drive most days I rarely drink anything alcoholic. The exception is communion wine and I often have to have more than a sip. But I have faith so I accept it.Hi Astoness,
It's certainly a small world, me and a few of the lads used to go in the lamplighter with one or two of the girls from the clean room mainly on a Friday (payday) during the dinner hour for a pie & a pint or two. As you say good days & happy memories.
Lozellian
s in the desk drawer and opened it the next morning to find them ripped open and mostly eaten !!
I remember Jim Webb, wasn
t he a small guy who was over the Inspection department near the top press shop ?Yes I remember going over to the lamplighter for a few pints, as you say, especially on a Friday afternoon.
I also recall that a rat catcher came into Brandauers and set poison and traps all over the place and over the days there were dead rats everywhere. I even remember seeing them on the window ledges on the 3rd floor .
In the drawing office I once left my sandwhichs in the desk drawer and opened it the next morning to find them ripped open and mostly eaten !! I remember Jim Webb, wasn
t he a small guy who was over the Inspection department near the top press shop ?
Hi, I would be really interested in catching up with you re Brandauers, please, if possible as I am the company archivist. Thank youI was having a browse around the site the other day and was amazed to see that Brandauers in New John St West was still standing. I used to work there as a Toolmaker in the late sixties. To work at Brandauers was an honour in those days as they paid the highest hourly rate for Toolmakers in Brum. If you wanted more you had to go to Coventry. I had not long finished my apprenticeship and applied for a job at Brandauers. The foreman thought it was a bit of a joke and told me to come back in a few years when I had learned something, just then, the Managing Director came into the room and asked a few questions. The foreman told him that he had advised me to come back later and the MD asked me where I 'served my time', when I told him British Pens Ltd, he told the foreman to give me a job as the MD had also served his time at the 'Pens'. The foreman gave me a really hard time after that, but I learned more about precision toolmaking there than I ever did anywhere else.
Hi, if you would like to tell me more about your memories of the factory, of my Father and Uncle I would be delighted to know as I am the archivist for Brandauer.Hi Everyone, I worked at Brandauers for 13 years in the drawing office between 1963 and 1981.
My father worked there and many of my uncle's as well. Dad knew Ian Pettit and Garth Pettit, as well as Tony Edwards-Jones. The design of multi stage tooling was exacting work but they were tough years but very enjoyable. If you worked at Brandauers you could get a job any where.
front of the building on njsw
Thank you, great photos