• Reference
    AQ8/12/2K
  • Title
    Allen Magazine single issue. contains: - picture of largest diesel engine ever made at Queens Works (p3) - visits to the works by Brian Parkyn MP (pictured with M A Spencer), members of the eastern branch of the institution of Mechanical Engineers, and H N Muller president of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. - Ronald Sharman congratulated on becoming an alderman - Open Day - Article on fens drainage (p6) - death of Kenneth Rowell (p7) - Recent contracts - Car rally Lands End to John O'Groats by Len Williams, a storeman in the main stores at Hydraulic Division, Lincoln - South African Notebook - Pershore including progress on new office block, machine shop outing, Ted Court's ballroom dancing and feature on Philip Walker. - Letters including specification and picture of works fire engine - appointments and staff changes - Rock climbing by Tony Martyr, Pershore works - Presentation of awards with pictures of P G Amor, David Amor and B G A Nelson. - Portrait of Harry Baldwin (Hydraulic Division, Lincoln) - creation of Grafham Water - Lincoln newsletter including Stephanie Nicoll - glider, death of Harold Ethelbert Page - Richard Wildman, Brain of Britain semi-finalist (p26) - Women only page including interview with Rachael Hunt and Margaret Wagstaff who joined Allens in 1941, visit of Gwen Wheeler nee Thompkins, marriages. - Children's page - Training topics including pictures of W B Beard, Richard Newton, F C Hayes, M C Jones and R Woodrow, D Martin, S Chambers and B Reynolds. - Pensioners Association - Retirements: Jack Hayward, Aubrey Arthur Buck, Frederick Arthur Pawson, Albert Reginald John Page, Ernest Hector Crouch, Fred Thomas, George William Wray, Horace Henry Frost, Reginald Claude Gibson, Morris Clifford, hydraulic division. - sports and social news - pictures of annual pensioners dinner, B P Manning and J Lewis, Ron Haynes, L G Letts, Fred Warnett, Jack Darwood and John Macrae receiving cups. Reports on angling, badminton, bowls, cine, cricket, hockey, golf, netball, olde tyme dancing, rugby, soccer, table tennis and tennis. - Obituaries: William Arthur Poulter, Geoffrey Anthony Reece, Morris Jones, Frederick Holmes, Martin McKenzie, Keith Gordon Jarvis, Leonard Henry Lane, Percy William Papps, Arthur Louis Tucker, Joseph Shield Tait, Percy George Brown and Charles Atkin Coxan.
  • Date free text
    1948-1966
  • Production date
    From: 1966 To: 1966
  • Level of description
    item