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  1. Julianlzb87

    Drynamels Ltd Shaftmoor Lane Birmingham 1950s

    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. :)
  2. Julianlzb87

    Drynamels Ltd Shaftmoor Lane Birmingham 1950s

    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.
  3. Julianlzb87

    Drynamels Ltd Shaftmoor Lane Birmingham 1950s

    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.
  4. Julianlzb87

    Drynamels Ltd Shaftmoor Lane Birmingham 1950s

    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
  5. Julianlzb87

    Drynamels Ltd Shaftmoor Lane Birmingham 1950s

    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.
  6. Julianlzb87

    Drynamels Ltd Shaftmoor Lane Birmingham 1950s

    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...
  7. Julianlzb87

    Drynamels Ltd Shaftmoor Lane Birmingham 1950s

    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...
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