Recent content by Julianlzb87

It was funny when I started there. I had the interview with Mike Albutt and at the end he had me do a colour blindness test that I "failed" (red/green colourblind) and then they gave me the job as a Lab tech anyway. :)

I remember Harry, Ted, Rob, Pete, Tom and Jim. I had a weekly late night poker thing with Rob Truran and his mates. I think he was moving from the Lab into Sales around the time I left.

I've looked but it seems Ferro-Drynamels has been "dissolved." It occurred to me that I might have been in a pension scheme. I guess I should actually go up a level and trace what happened to Tube Investments as any pension would have been in their scheme.

You must have joined just after I left, even perhaps replaced me as I had just completed my ONC on day release and then went to Exeter University. Names I remember in the Lab... Steve Peel, David Miller, Mike, David Allen, Mike Albut

I'm pretty sure I was sticking TI Drynamels on Lab samples of paint I was sending to customers for a couple of years before I left in 1978.

ppps. On the map posted above there is a pink block which was the main paint production plant. On the left hand/West side of the block was the production testing lab where every morning us young lads would congregate to observe a woman doing her bathroom thing, naked, right in front of her...

Yes, it is Drynamels, which shared a boundary with a Lucas factory. I worked there as a paint research and development lab technician for four years, 16-20yo, before I went to University in 1978. When I worked there on the left hand side of the driveway in to the property there was a single...