Scope and Content
- Glass manufacture
- Article about sodium perborate manufactured by Laporte.
- Second major plant starts up at Stallingborough to manufacture phthalic anhydride.
- Article about Blue John by Leslie Habbershaw.
- The work & problems of a shop steward by A.M.Spilsbury of Warrington.
- Apprentices dinner at Battery Works, with photos of G.Hickson, D.N.Bacon, R.J.L.Broadburn, John Grantham, D.E.McDonald.
- Australian Oil & Colour Chemists Convention , with photo of H.D.Bruce, D.M.D.Stewart, W.E.Craker.
- Organics & Pigments Division News. With photographs of the Battery Works football team: Jeff Cook, D.Storr, T.Johnson, M.Pratt, P.Denison, D.Plumb, P.Watson, R.Stevenson, B.Judd, W.Richardson, D.Henson. Stallingborough Table Tennis team: M.Islip, S.Smart, B.Judd, T.I.Martin, P.O’Brien. Wedding photographs of June Hopkinson and Tony Walton; M.Lowe & Kathleen Thompson; Brian Borrill & Susan Farmer; B.Meggett & Christine Mary Lambert; A.Johnson & Kathleen Ashwell. Employees at Ilford: Pat Purdue, Christine Always, Lynda Walden, Douglas Vernon Stuart Walden. New employees at Ilford; Jean Medcraft, Jennifer Benson, Stella Foster. Retirement of Albert Midlane after 49 years service at Ilford, with photo. Obituary of Fred Desmond, with photo. William Thomas Cosham, Fred Sydney Bursby, William Maylon, William Alfred Blatcher & William Mead complete 25 years service at Redhill, with photos.
- General Chemicals Division News. 25 Year club at Luton, group photo including Alan G.Stanbridge, G.P.Lawrence, H.Swallow, K.Carrington, S.G.Bowler, P.H.Squires, R.Ellison, Jackie Lavin, T.M.Hawkes, G.M.Burley, P.A.Fitzpatrick, H.L.Hulland, W.J.Janes, R.S.Lancaster, Laurence Donald Smith, G.Jackson, C.W.LeFeuvre, T.K.Jamieson. Presentations to Stan Lewis, S.G.Bowler, R.Ellison & W.J.Janes with brief summaries of their 40 year careers; Photo of Secretary of the Laporte Savings Group Mr S.G.A.Sergeant; Obituary with photo of Fred Castleman; Geoffrey Peter Lawrence completes 25 years service, with photo; Presentations at Warrington Sports Day & Horticultural Show to Mrs J.Browne from K.M.Hack and to K.M. Hack from E.M.Smith; Report with photo of L.Dring and his involvement with the Scout movement and a trip to Europe; New employees Rosalyn McHale, Linda Myers, John Gordon Isherwood, Martyn Wild; Report on the Farnhill family employed at Castleford, with photos of Arthur Farnhll, Brenda Farnhill, Barry Farnhill & Barry Moxon; wedding photo of Joseph William Mellor & Frances Kay Seddon.