Perfecta Seamless Tube Works Plume Street Aston

[Anthony Collins]

Perfecta Seamless Tube Works. I am looking for any photographs of Plume Street Aston and in particular The Perfecta Seamless Tube Works in Plume Street built by John Bowen & Sons. Please contact me if you can help. Thanks - anthonyrcollins@btinternet.com

 

[BernardR]

Check this thread https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=74&page=8 Post 118

And https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=43685


These have the only references I can find to Perfecta.

 

[ASTONITE]

Hi Anthony, this is the only picture of Plume Street I have ever found, unfortunately, it doesn't show a lot, it is one of Ray Griffith's wonderful collection. I would also like to obtain some photographs of Plume Street as a few of my ancestors lived there.

 

[Pedrocut]

Express and Star Photo Archives....25 Nov 1987 Wolverhampton Archives

Power press operators at work in newly refurbished factory making wide range of bearings. Fire last January gutted the old factory but new one now houses machinery with old factory being rebuilt on 3 floors alongside.

 

[Villian64]

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Express and Star Photo Archives....25 Nov 1987 Wolverhampton Archives

Power press operators at work in newly refurbished factory making wide range of bearings. Fire last January gutted the old factory but new one now houses machinery with old factory being rebuilt on 3 floors alongside.

worked here 92 - 94 delivery driver and despatch graham lippett was my gaffer

 

[Altwood1974]

Managed to find this out about the Perfecta Tube and Conduit Company of Plume Street, Aston, Birmingham. This is written in 1918 just at the end of WW1.

 

[Altwood1974]

enlargement of record attached

 

[Vivienne14]

Men and boys (and one woman) employed by Perfecta in 1915.


Source: British Newspaper Archive

 

[Altwood1974]

Men and boys (and one woman) employed by Perfecta in 1915.

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Source: British Newspaper Archive

This is brilliant thank you. Apparently the workers went on strike just before or during WW1 and it was in the newspapers. This photo that you have posted, is so important to document. *****

 

[Richard Dye]

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Express and Star Photo Archives....25 Nov 1987 Wolverhampton Archives

Power press operators at work in newly refurbished factory making wide range of bearings. Fire last January gutted the old factory but new one now houses machinery with old factory being rebuilt on 3 floors alongside.

A little take away from the press set up. In 1987 to be competitive we would have three presses with one operator running at about twice the speed that presses in the photo could run. Also most stacked the “pancake” reels with three or four coils so that the press barely stopped on a coil change.