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When I worked at Cannings, Wilmot Breedon were one of our big customers. What happened to themThis 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!
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'sWhen 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