• Reference
    X941/2/1/77
  • Title
    Laporte News. Vol.7.No.4 House Magazine of the Laporte Group of Companies.
  • Date free text
    April 1966
  • Production date
    From: 1966 To: 1966
  • Scope and Content
    - Feature on the export order office, with photos including Violet Lewis, Eric Woods, Marian Kent, Maurice King, Brenda Farrell. - Luton Apprentice training scheme with photos of presentations of awards to P.J.Proctor, R.J.Perry, N.C.Whitford, A.R.Day, G.S.Coates. - Luton’s Annual Ball, with photos including D.Buckingham, C.E.Plenderleath, G.T.Plenderleath, M.Clark, J.Fowler, R.Jackson. - Photo of Howards’ Suggestion award winners Bill Winney and Jim Gibbard. - Brief history of Fullers’ Earth Union Limited - Feature on telephonists Gladys Holmes at Ilford and Valerie Aldred at Warrington, with photos. - Russians visit Stallingborough, with photos including Martin Raikes, C.M.W.Orpen, R.S.Darby, V.A.Tarsova, S.V.Avilov, C.Burnell, E.D.Smirnova, C.Broadburn, Komov, Z.I. Murzeneva. - F.B.Bristow builds model locomotive. With photos. - Hobbies of J.A.Williams, including Middleton Railway. - Organics & Pigments Division News: photo of presentation to Ken Bunce; photos of Alan Taylor, Brian Tasker, J.Smith, C.M.W.Orpen, J.Cook, D.Fowler, M.Rae, D.Platts; wedding photos for marriage of M.Blyth & R.Button and B.Tasker & J.Carrick, Avril Ely & David Hemmingfield; Retirement of Leonard Joseph Lowe & Robert Francis, with photos; 25 years club photos including H.J.Breedon, Arthur James Denness, Jack Hall, James Richard Skinner, Frederick John Packman, Eric Sneezum, Reg Palmer (no photo), Arthur Stacey; Retirement of Grzegorz Ilczyszyn; brief obituary with photo of F.A.Fullbrook; new vending machine at Howards’, with photos of Christine Always and Minnie Mann; feature on the Comptometer department at Howards, with photos of Barbara Hatton, Carol Stroud, Gladys Kemp; deferred retirements with photos and brief career histories of Tom Copp, James Tottman and William Arlett; Retirement and career history of William Ernest Cawthorne, with photo; accountancy & general services department, with photos of Diana Heasman and Brenda Smith. - General Chemicals Division News: H.Forrester joins 25 year club; Retirements of C.J.Saunders, Sydney mason, Arthur Harold Flint, Joe Barker, Sidney George Long, W.J.Holding (with photos); obituary and photo of John Cornelius Jones; retirement of George Duckingfield, Fred Bedford & G Redfearn, with photos; feature on office staff at Eastgate House, with photos of P.Clayton, H.Fox, P.Pemberton, D.Taylor, J.McGreavy, Margaret Till, M.Crow, M.Hall, J.Middleton, Angela Rose, Norman Scawthorn; retirement of F.H.Shepherd; Baronet Works staff with photos of Joyce Hassall, Albert Thompson, Colin Dainteth, Jean Higham, Philip Barnett, A.Pearson, Vincent Scriven, Graham Biddle, Jean Wilkinson, J.H.Finch, K.K.Deakin, W.Bate, E.Dickinson, J.Johnson; retirement of F.A.Bennett & Fred Berry; photo of Bernardette Longden.
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