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Mick Strong
Coventry
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31 of 88  Thu 3rd Dec 2020 11:40am  

Hi Neil, yes remember your dad very well. Great engineer and a top bloke who taught me a lot. Pete left Wickman and went to work for a guy called Norman Pollard at Pollard Machine Tools. Norman was first in the UK to get the Mori Seki franchise. This was later taken over by his son Richard Pollard and was based near the Bham Airport and later moved over Leicester way. Quite a few ex Wickman Apprentices went to work at Pollards. I thought that Tom Hughes (another ex Wickie guy) took over Whitehouse M/c Tools, but I may be wrong? Never knew he had a brother, but I knew his sister Jenny.
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NeilsYard
Coventry
32 of 88  Thu 3rd Dec 2020 11:53am  

Mick - its amazing what a quick web search turns up! Looks like Tom Hughes was Sales Director. I wouldn't have recognised Tim in a million years! Last time I saw him he had just left school and was working at Next in Leamington - then again when I think about it that was probably about 30-odd years ago - time flies! WMT News
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Mick Strong
Coventry
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33 of 88  Thu 3rd Dec 2020 12:05pm  

Thanks Neil. I guess Tom must be getting close to retirement age?
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Midland Red

34 of 88  Thu 3rd Dec 2020 6:44pm  

Neil. Pete married Janet Rhodes in 1967 - she was a comptometer operator in the accounts department at Banner Lane. Lovely girl. Gosh, Neil, you weren't even born then. Oh my
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Mick Strong
Coventry
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35 of 88  Thu 3rd Dec 2020 6:53pm  

Hi MR, would he have been 21/22 then?
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Midland Red

36 of 88  Thu 3rd Dec 2020 7:12pm  

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Mick Strong
Coventry
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37 of 88  Mon 7th Dec 2020 12:52pm  

On 19th Jun 2015 11:31pm, Pete H said: I started my apprenticeship on 3 September 1979. Colin Tipson was the Training Manager and Jack Trigg was in charge of the training school. He along with Roland Harbourne, Frank Wardell and Ralph Tipton taught us so well. I still have every piece I made there and will always be proud to have been a Wickman Apprentice. We had our First Year dinner at The Manor in Meriden and I can still see the complementary ciggies in the wine glasses placed along the centre of the tables. Happy days indeed! Pete Holmes
When I started in 66, Joe Williams was in charge, but sat in his ivory tower. Colin Tipson was his assistant and Kathy was their secretary. Training instructors were Jack Trigg (fitting) Ralph Tipton (turning) Bill Shaw (grinding), cannot remember the milling instructors name? But it was before Frank Wardell who was in the toolroom at that time on the Jig Boring. There was a guy called Bert who ran the small stores and gave you one clean wiper per week!! There were 44 of us in the training school that year, made up from Wickman, Webster & Bennett, Samuel Gill and Wickman Scrivener, Witton. Over the year, we made numerous test pieces (I still have them all 54 years later) these included a vice, pair of vee blocks, cylinder square and 30 / 60, 45 / 90 set squares. I have my group picture somewhere, must dig it out. I can remember many of the names from that picture.
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Midland Red

38 of 88  Mon 7th Dec 2020 2:21pm  

Wickman Scrivener! A name from the past. They were Arthur Scrivener on Tyburn Road, Birmingham, as I recall, when Wickman took them over. Did some accounts work one month-end, and also at Taylor & Challen. Long time ago Oh my
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matchle55
Coventry
39 of 88  Mon 7th Dec 2020 2:37pm  

Cliff, Wasn't Cincinnati around that way?

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Mick Strong
Coventry
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40 of 88  Mon 7th Dec 2020 2:59pm  

On 7th Dec 2020 2:21pm, Midland Red said: Wickman Scrivener! A name from the past. They were Arthur Scrivener on Tyburn Road, Birmingham, as I recall, when Wickman took them over. Did some accounts work one month-end, and also at Taylor & Challen. Long time ago Oh my
Sadly, my last job for Wickman before being made redundant in 84, was to sub-contract all of the work in progress from Scrivener prior to the auction of all the plant that wasn't needed at Banner Lane
Mick Strong

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Mick Strong
Coventry
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41 of 88  Mon 7th Dec 2020 3:04pm  

On 7th Dec 2020 2:37pm, matchle55 said: Cliff, Wasn't Cincinnati around that way?
Cincinatti was on Kingsbury Road, I think there was a pop factory close by?
Mick Strong

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Mike18
Coventry
42 of 88  Thu 10th Dec 2020 11:46am  

Hi, My dad who recently passed away, 93 years old, worked at Wickman from the 50's till retirement, on Inspection. His name was Ray Copson. He and Jack Hands mentioned in a earlier post used to car share to and from Banner Lane in the 60/70s.

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Mick Strong
Coventry
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43 of 88  Thu 10th Dec 2020 1:10pm  

Hi Mike18 I knew your dad really well. He was chief inspector for the Heavy Machine Shop from when I was there 1970 to 1984. Great bloke whom I had a lot of respect for. Sorry for your loss.
Mick Strong

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Mike18
Coventry
44 of 88  Thu 10th Dec 2020 8:23pm  

Thank you,

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Mick Strong
Coventry
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45 of 88  Thu 10th Dec 2020 10:07pm  

Hi Mike18 A bloke called Bob Smith worked for your dad. Did he ever mention him?
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