A J Vaughan (Mitre Works) Willenhall

[Esg66]

Hi
I remember visiting this forge? In 1980 and not long after, the managing director Michael Vaughan killed himself by putting his head under a drop hammer -I had met him a few months previously at an International Drop Forging Convention and wondered if anyone remembers this, the convention and what happened after - it was a horrific way to go.

 

[Astoness]

Hi
I remember visiting this forge? In 1980 and not long after, the managing director Michael Vaughan killed himself by putting his head under a drop hammer -I had met him a few months previously at an International Drop Forging Convention and wondered if anyone remembers this, the convention and what happened after - it was a horrific way to go.

what an awful thing to happen...poor man

lyn

 

[Robert Stallard]

Hi
I remember visiting this forge? In 1980 and not long after, the managing director Michael Vaughan killed himself by putting his head under a drop hammer -I had met him a few months previously at an International Drop Forging Convention and wondered if anyone remembers this, the convention and what happened after - it was a horrific way to go.

Hi
I remember visiting this forge? In 1980 and not long after, the managing director Michael Vaughan killed himself by putting his head under a drop hammer -I had met him a few months previously at an International Drop Forging Convention and wondered if anyone remembers this, the convention and what happened after - it was a horrific way to go.

Michael Vaughan was my father's best man at his wedding and I worked at the forge during a summer vacation in the late 1970s. The family home was in Plaish, Shropshire and Michael commuted in every day - must have taken an hour each way. I suspect the financial problems in this small family business proved too much. His widow Barbara moved to Church Stretton and live to a good age. They had two children, Paul moved to Australia while the daughter acted as a tour guide at Whitwick Manor for a long while. Michael is the man on the right of this photo at my parent's wedding 7th March 1953 at St Peter's Wolverhampton.