Time Traveller 66
master brummie
I will make a few enquires and get back.
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Lucas products and services
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yow've med my day yaw av
I forgot to mention I worked in both of them doing building repairs etc
Brookfields Lad
master brummie
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
master brummie
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
master brummie
Car Lighting Services were on the Moseley road as you say. I think the owner was Harold Brown.
mw0njm.
A Brummie Dude
car lighting
mw0njm.
A Brummie Dude
Time Traveller 66
master brummie
Thanks for that . Just need to put a name to the building in Sutton Street
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).
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.
Eric Gibson
master brummie
How about this:
devonjim
master brummie
I think that is a very different Lucas.
Remember when the Lucas office was built at Monkspath, the proposed building was erected in a scaffold outline, don't know why, perhaps to show planners the proposal, imagine if the city council had made a similar request for the "Octagon Tower"
devonjim
master brummie
The garage in Tyseley was Gethin's not Gittin's. Well I was only 7 or 8 when I lived there!
Eric Gibson
master brummie
Try this:
devonjim
master brummie
In the commentary there was a claim that the mini was the World's first front-wheel drive car, there were Citroens quite a view years previous. I think it was true that the mini was the first CV front-wheel drive.