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Hi Pedrocut.
Timmy Knight was my father, sadly he passed away in 2006.
He really made the most out of his retirement. In fact it was a miracle if you were able to catch him at home.
I remember taking him shopping to the Fox & Goose Shopping Centre, it used to take hours and hours and hours.
We had to stop and chat with so many people.
He knew every other person we walked past. All from the Met of course.
It made my day to see his name here, he would have absolutely loved this site.
Thanks for remembering him.
Annette
Pedrocut
Master Barmmie
Lovely to hear from you, Timmy may have spoken to you about his snooker partner for many years at the Barn Social Club!
You would also known Len and Cyril?
Please give me an email via the site correspondence, all the best Peter
John Brown
Brummie babby
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John Brown
Brummie babby
I worked at the Metro Cammel Saltley in the finishing shop from 1944 until 1955. I worked with Frank Spink, Eddie Warner and Percy Jones on the setting-out bench
John Brown
Brummie babby
I worked on the setting out bench next door to the wood machine shop from 1944 to 1955
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Margaret Rose Marie
New Member
I worked at metro camel from 1963 until 1969 both at saltley and washwood heath. Anyone got any memories.
John Brown
Brummie babby
I think the man in the suit is Percy Jones. I worked with him until 1955.
John Brown
Brummie babby
I think the man in the suit is Percy Jones who I worked with on the setting out bench early 1950 unti 1955
My Uncle Bertie used to work at the MET, I used to watch him trudging up Phillimore Road, he was a chain smoker and the walk home always made him out of breathe. I think some of my other Uncles may have worked there breifly, too. I was young then, and didn't really pay too much attention to where the adults worked.
Would this “Metropolitan” Sports Ground belong to Metro Cammell ? Viv.
Hi Viv,
Yes, this was certainly the Met Club viewed from the sports field.
When I was at Metropolitan Cammell, I kept the accounts for the
club, I also worked for a while behind the bar, and of course, the
kids loved the Christmas parties.
All gone, - but they were happy days.
Kind regards
Dave
Yes, this was certainly the Met Club viewed from the sports field.
When I was at Metropolitan Cammell, I kept the accounts for the
club, I also worked for a while behind the bar, and of course, the
kids loved the Christmas parties.
All gone, - but they were happy days.
Kind regards
Dave
Elmdon Boy
master brummie
Yes, companies stopped caring about their employees from the 1970s onwards.
The large and medium sized companies used to have social and sports clubs, with bars and snooker tables.
They would put on Christmas pantos and parties for the employees children.
There was subsidised canteen meals during the day for workers. Coach trips to the seaside.
This all cost money of course, get rid of it and pass on the extra savings to the shareholders, their far more important than the workers. Grrrrrrrr.
Most of those companies were sold on to foreign owners who eventually asset stripped them and closed them down.
What a shame, gone are the days of a family bond with the companies.
Elmdon Boy
master brummie
I hear the Jaguar Land Rover social club and sports ground in Solihull is due to close down soon. Its a well supported club but car parking space is apparently more important.
It just goes on and on.
The people just don't count anymore.
It just goes on and on.
The people just don't count anymore.
Some Brummie products photographed in Scotland by a Brummie bloke in a Scottish regiment!
The tanks are products of Metropolitan at Saltley, photographed in Edinburgh in spring/summer 1919. The photographer is my father, Birmingham born and bred and yet, somehow or other, finding himself in a Scottish regiment and a kilt. He's been wounded in France, repatriated, now recovered and awaiting demob whilst he photographs much of what he sees around him - tanks, guns, barracks, parades and, especially, the lads and lassies who are his friends. Survivors all, well, the blokes, anyway. And as for the tanks.......
Here is an expert opinion as to what these three images tell us.
The two heavy tanks are Mark V* Males (pronounced "Mark V Star"). The nearer tank ("Better Ole") is serial number 10062, training number 933, while what I presume is "Top 'Ole" beyond it appears to be serial number 10034. Both tanks were built by Metropolitan Carriage, Wagon & Finance Company of Birmingham, in the second batch of Mark V* Males. No.10034 has its semaphore signalling device erected - the white stalk with the disc projecting above its roof. We can't see 10034's training number from this angle, but it would also have been a three-digit code beginning with "9".
The photo showing the Mark V* generating a smokescreen is most interesting. The engine must be running because the cloud of smoke is being recycled through the radiator's air intake louvres on the rear left side of the hull. The smoke itself appears to be generated by smoke candles carried on the stowage rack hinged to the rear of the armoured fuel tank, instead of injecting acid into the tank's exhaust pipe, which ends well above the source of the smoke in this photo.
Chris
The tanks are products of Metropolitan at Saltley, photographed in Edinburgh in spring/summer 1919. The photographer is my father, Birmingham born and bred and yet, somehow or other, finding himself in a Scottish regiment and a kilt. He's been wounded in France, repatriated, now recovered and awaiting demob whilst he photographs much of what he sees around him - tanks, guns, barracks, parades and, especially, the lads and lassies who are his friends. Survivors all, well, the blokes, anyway. And as for the tanks.......
Here is an expert opinion as to what these three images tell us.
The two heavy tanks are Mark V* Males (pronounced "Mark V Star"). The nearer tank ("Better Ole") is serial number 10062, training number 933, while what I presume is "Top 'Ole" beyond it appears to be serial number 10034. Both tanks were built by Metropolitan Carriage, Wagon & Finance Company of Birmingham, in the second batch of Mark V* Males. No.10034 has its semaphore signalling device erected - the white stalk with the disc projecting above its roof. We can't see 10034's training number from this angle, but it would also have been a three-digit code beginning with "9".
The photo showing the Mark V* generating a smokescreen is most interesting. The engine must be running because the cloud of smoke is being recycled through the radiator's air intake louvres on the rear left side of the hull. The smoke itself appears to be generated by smoke candles carried on the stowage rack hinged to the rear of the armoured fuel tank, instead of injecting acid into the tank's exhaust pipe, which ends well above the source of the smoke in this photo.
Chris
John Brown
Brummie babby
John Brown
Brummie babby
Yes it was the Mets sports ground, I played tennis there.
Radiorails
master brummie
I think this was posted earlier in this thread, but the link is one of these no longer working.
Railway History from Metro-Cammell Ltd
Metro-Cammell Ltd, Birmingham, UK, had 160 years of history in the railway industry, this is a look at that story.
metcam.co.uk.nstempintl.com
I had a great-granduncle called Percy Jones (b. 1897) whose mother (Jennetta) was a Spink. Don’t know anything about him, maybe a link?
Richard Dye
master brummie
Did Ron ever work at Brooke Tool Automation?
First tank off the Saltley line in WW1.
Viv.
Source: British Newspaper Archive
Viv.
Source: British Newspaper Archive