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I do apologise in advance if I have posted this in the wrong category. I am trying to find anybody that worked at the factory in Enfield Redditch aproximately 60 years ago, I'm assuming folks from Brum did travel to Redditch for work back then and depending on which part of Brum you were based in, it's not that far. If anyone could help please I would be most grateful x:
 
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For the record….

ENFIELD (GB) 1907-1915
  1. Enfield Autocar Co. Ltd., Redditch, Worcs. 1907-1908
  2. Enfield Autocar Co. Ltd., Sparkbrook, Birminghan)
1908-1915

The first commercial vehicle made by this company, originally an offshoot of the famous Royal Enfield cycle and armaments firm, was a 3-ton forward control truck with 25 hp T-head 4-cylinder engine and single chain drive. Few were made, and there was little commercial vehicle activity after the change of address which coincided with the acquisition of Enfield by the Alldays & Onions com-pany. In 1914, however, Enfield announced a 5 cwt light van on their 1100cc 4-cylinder Nimble Nine car chassis. This was known as the Parcelette. GNG

ENFIELD-ALLDAY (GB) 1920-1923

Enfield-Allday Motors Ltd., Sparkbrook, Birmingham This company was the result of the merger between the Enfield Autocar Company and Alldays & Onions Ltd.

Though both companies had made commercial vehicles before the war, Enfield-Allday was best-known for passenger cars, and only one commercial model was listed. This was a 2-ton chassis powered by a 4-cylinder 25 hp engine of 4.4-litres capacity. It had a 3-speed gearbox and enclosed chain drive. Not many were made, and after 1923 the company decided to concentrate on light cars. GNG

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I often forget that Royal Enfield began in Hunt End. I only associate it with the Hewell Road Enfield estate. I now live in Redditch and when I go to Screwfix I always look at the Royal Enfield sign on the old building
 
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I didn't know there used to be 'accumulator works' in Hunt End. I only knew of the Brittania batteries factory in Union Street, the old BSA factory. I used to deal with them in their various names, Alkaline Batteries etc.
 
pjmburns said:
I assume this was the factory next to the Red Lion Pub mentioned in post # 5
1938 map
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Yes, the Red Lion is still the same as it was all those years ago, the blue plaque is on the wall roughly opposite where it says 105 on that map.
People still alive in Enfield road remember the factory as it was before the fire.

I live just the other side of the Red Lion in Feckenham Rd, just by Love lyne Lane which runs into open countryside. There is woodland at the back of the Red lion and the units in Dunlop road and an old water tower is still there and quite a long narrow channel of two rows of brick work which I'm not sure of the purpose.

I have a book of the history of Royal Enfield with comments of the workers of how they were trained from aged 14 and what jobs they had to do, they used to give all the new motorbikes an actual test run down our road and around the lanes and back which was a job they all wanted to do.

The photo below shows how it used to look, the house on the right is still there but Enfield road is now in two parts as Windmill drive cut it in half when they built the new town in the 1970's


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