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Advertising in the past

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It is amazing when one imagines all these companies, large and small, all working full time and almost all of them making items for export as well as the home market.
 
This batch of posts from "Stitcher" tracked a few years of my life, 11 years at Wilmot Breeden, but never knew they made gas turbines. I lived in Alvechurch and my next door neighbour worked at Hudson's, and Dellow Motors had been made there by Ken Delingpole and Ron Lowe, not many cars had molybdenum chrome chassis. In later years Delingpole set up Delson Fasteners with their curious "dog" trademark. In 1960's an Austin Healey was my pride and joy. Greet was were I went to Saturday matinee ie The Tyseley, where my great aunt worked at Fillery toffee's and where Wilder fireworks were made. Oh and I did an apprenticeship in electroplating but car components not knifes and forks. Seems we have to go to China to find companies working full time churning goods out for export!
 
Mom never went short of Kirbigrips when I was young. Dad worked at Perry Pens and traded pen nibs for grips with a mate of his who worked there.Both items churned out by the millions!

Maurice
 
This batch of posts from "Stitcher" tracked a few years of my life, 11 years at Wilmot Breeden, but never knew they made gas turbines. I lived in Alvechurch and my next door neighbour worked at Hudson's, and Dellow Motors had been made there by Ken Delingpole and Ron Lowe, not many cars had molybdenum chrome chassis. In later years Delingpole set up Delson Fasteners with their curious "dog" trademark. In 1960's an Austin Healey was my pride and joy. Greet was were I went to Saturday matinee ie The Tyseley, where my great aunt worked at Fillery toffee's and where Wilder fireworks were made. Oh and I did an apprenticeship in electroplating but car components not knifes and forks. Seems we have to go to China to find companies working full time churning goods out for export!
When I worked at Cannings, Wilmot Breedon were one of our big customers. What happened to them
Bob
 
When I worked at Cannings, Wilmot Breedon were one of our big customers. What happened to them
Bob
I left WB in 1970, they were taken over by Rockwell in mid '70's, lost ground in UK when we didn't go into Europe, they moved production to St Die near Strasbourg and also chrome trim on cars went out of fashion.We had used a lot of Cannings plating chemicals and nickel anodes etc. in 1960's
 
I left WB in 1970, they were taken over by Rockwell in mid '70's, lost ground in UK when we didn't go into Europe, they moved production to St Die near Strasbourg and also chrome trim on cars went out of fashion.We had used a lot of Cannings plating chemicals and nickel anodes etc. in 1960's

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I remember when the big new plating plant was put in, big automatic set up, quite an investment. WB were a very big and important customer to Cannings
Bob
 
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Not a very good image but you can see the Alma street Birmingham address.
 
That Wolseley advert must have been from around the turn of the century, Herbert Austin gave up the managing job before 1905 I think but remained as chairman until later .
My father worked at the factory which was in Electric Avenue opposite the GEC works, he started when his apprenticeship as a cabinet maker ended (No jobs in that trade) around 1927 and finished on retirement in 1971.
 
According to Grace's guide, Austin was manager till 1905, when he left to form the Austin motor co. He was managing director of Wolseley 1911-33
 
Remember this logo ? I remember going to the Aston studios to watch a recording of Thank Your Lucky Stars with Pete Murray as compère. Would have been in late 1960s. Viv.

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Last week I bought a "new" jigsaw from a charity shop - the subject was Cadbury adverts over the year's. The one I had was a collage of lots of different ones. I was even more pleased when I turned the box over and found pictures of several more adverts. I am attaching photos - next thing is to try to date them! I especially liked the shop dated 1830s.
 

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I didn't post the photo of my jigsaw as I haven't finished it yet and think it will be better in the larger size but there is one advert which certainly would not be PC today - using a figure like the one above.
 
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I don't remember my Mom using this but there was always Oxo available.
 
Viv, Thank Your Lucky Stars finished in 1966.
I also went to a recording of Thank your Lucky Stars at the ATV studio in Aston in 1962.
I remember the studio audience was a lot smaller than appeared on TV. The cameras scanned the audience, but I was disappointed when I did not appear on TV on the following Saturday.
The recording was done on a Sunday afternoon, for the forthcoming Saturday night.
The audience were quite detached from the artists as you were high up, and you could only see the show by peering down to the ground floor through the scaffolding.
The main artist on that show was Marty Wilde singing Jezabelle.
 
Yes I remember the audience seeming small and the scaffolding (thought I'd imagined the scaffolding !). I remember Pete Murray coming into the audience climbing up the stairs. Never got to watch the recording as our TV was incredibly unreliable and was more out of action than watchable.

Must find out if those recordings are still around. I went with my mum, my friend and her mum. Secretly think the grown ups were more excited than we were to be part of the audience. I can't actually remember who we saw ! Viv.
 
The poster with the lovely white painted ship is, presumably, a commemorative of the accession to the throne, in 1901, of Edward VII and Queen Alexandra.
II have this picture hanging on a wall in an ante room at my home.
 
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Because the text was very small and difficult to read I split the image into two parts.
 
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