• Reference
    X941/2/1/75
  • Title
    Laporte News. Vol.7.No.2 House Magazine of the Laporte Group of Companies.
  • Date free text
    July 1965
  • Production date
    From: 1965 To: 1965
  • Scope and Content
    - Front cover photo of Ray Smith at the Epoxy soya bean oil plant at Luton. - Reorganisation of Laporte Group, with new divisions and appointments. Includes photos of the following: General Chemicals Division; Chairman F.S.Poole, Deputy Chairmen D.H.Cutler and F.S.Robinson. Organics & Pigments Division; Chairman G.F.Somerville, Deputy Chairmen R.M.Raikes, G.H.Maddra. Overseas Division Chairman J. Maddock. - Feature on model maker Dennis Green, with photos. - Obituary for Robert Barclay Craig, Luton. - Retirement of R.W.Nicholds, with photos of presentation. - Edwin Eade completes 50 years service, with photo. - Cost Clerk Denise Seeger and her part time job as a fire dancer. With photo. - Reg Lightfoot drives tanker to Munich. With photos - Lord & Lady Hill visit Fullers Earth Union Limited. Includes photos of J.G.Lancaster, R.W.Nicholds, A.W.Boorman, C.A.Phelps, A.G.Callard and R.M.Raikes. - Staff at Glebe Mines Limited, Eyam, rescue soldier trapped in cavern. - Laporte Group golf tournament prize dinner, with photos including R.Latheron, John Turner, S.D.Durrant, R.Draper, G.T.Butler , P.Flowers and P.J.Taylor. - Stallingborough News: Retirement presentation to J.M.Mathers; Feature about work studies with photos of A.E.Rogers, M.Todd, D.E.McDonald, R.A.Dye; J.Ward reports from Bunbury Australia; photos of J.Cooper, W.W.Richardson, R.Austwick, J.Grayson, Judy Mellor, P.Jones, Pauline Layton, J.O’Connor, Jean Mary Holberry, M.A.Islip, Pamela Ogle, N.Foster, Rosemary Hale, J.Roberts, Diana Stubbs; Feature about Frank Vincent, Fork lifter & horticulturalist; F.G.H.Sieling and the Territorial Army; Flexowriters in the offices, with photos including Vivien Ellis, Maureen Bird, Bill Clark, Alan Burton, Vivien Barker, Humphrey Meyer, Brenda Rainbow, Ray Nicholson; Janet Herwig and her archery hobby (with photo); Chemical operator training, with photos of Raymond Perkins, Arthur Stimson, Alf Holland, Jim Crafton, Harry Robinson, Fred Prior & Alan Farendon; Retirement of Alfred John Gibbard and Frederick John Desmond; W.R.Holford; Robert Gordon Becher visits from Australia; 25 year men, with photos of R.Martin Raikes, William Woodhall, R.W.Nicholds, F.C.Bylett, Edwin Eade, Len Morris; Career histories of Frederick Alan Dance and Frederick John Bennett; Henry William Hall recovers after accident; Leisure interests of Charles Walter Gale; retirement photos of H.H.Jenner, F.V.Flint, A.W.Goose, D.M.Morley, M.Folan; letter and photo regarding Albert Howlett. - Retirement of Aubrey Smart, with photo and career history. - Feature on E.G.Hill and his love of skiing - Retirement of B.E.A.Vigers, with photos and career history.
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