Lucas products and services

[Time Traveller 66]

The only two premises I remember were the one in Irving street off Bristol street Horsefair and one in Aston which had their offices etc

I will make a few enquires and get back.

 

[izzy eckerslike]

I will make a few enquires and get back.

I forgot to mention I worked in both of them doing building repairs etc

 

[Brookfields Lad]

The only two premises I remember were the one in Irving street off Bristol street Horsefair and one in Aston which had their offices etc

The other premises for A T Gittins was on Aston Road north called UNIMAG, Universal, Magneto and Electrical, Diesel services. There was another depot in Worcester called Auto, Electrical, Services.

 

[Time Traveller 66]

The other premises for A T Gittins was on Aston Road north called UNIMAG, Universal, Magneto and Electrical, Diesel services. There was another depot in Worcester called Auto, Electrical, Services.

I do apologise i think it was either Car Lighting or Car Electrical Services . Was there a A T Gittins on the Mosely road on the left hand side heading out of the city.

 

[Brookfields Lad]

I do apologise i think it was either Car Lighting or Car Electrical Services . Was there a A T Gittins on the Mosely road on the left hand side heading out of the city.

Car Lighting Services were on the Moseley road as you say. I think the owner was Harold Brown.

 

[mw0njm.]

Car Lighting Services were on the Moseley road as you say. I think the owner was Harold Brown.

car lighting

 

[mw0njm.]

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[Time Traveller 66]

Car Lighting Services were on the Moseley road as you say. I think the owner was Harold Brown.

Thanks for that . Just need to put a name to the building in Sutton Street

 

[Penns]

Lucas also had a company aircraft based at Birmingham airport from approximately 1978 to 1990

 

[Jackolah]

I was recruited in 1989 to Join Lucas Engineering and Systems Ltd in Shirley, based at the Research Centre. This was headed up by Professor John Parnaby, http://www.valuedrivendesign.co.uk/managementguide/frontmatter.aspx and we ran the mainframes, across the UK and also had 400 engineers going out to do Manufacturing systems redesign taskforces, across Lucas sites and those of suppliers and customers. The techniques used would later be called "lean manufacturing". LE&S ltd was later bought by CSC (a computer science company) who ran the mainframes. By that time I'd left and gone to Lucas NSF in Keighley (Which is now NSF controls) and then Lucas in Burnley (Now part of TRW).

 

[Dinger]

Found this wartime advert for Butlers Ltd - they merged with Lucas in 1948. Their "Atlantic Works" was in Grange Road, Small Heath. It occupied the block bounded by Grange Road, Hawkes Street and Baker Street. Started in 1911, their main business was lamps for motor vehicles but they had diversified into illumination for aircraft (which I believe went on to be a separate division within Lucas). The type 841 landing lamp in the advert was the RAFs "Type G" landing lamp used on the Hurricane, Defiant and Battle.