• Reference
    X941/2/1/82
  • Title
    Laporte News. Vol.7.No.9 House Magazine of the Laporte Group of Companies.
  • Date free text
    September 1967
  • Production date
    From: 1967 To: 1967
  • Scope and Content
    - Message from Geoffrey Hickson, Managing Director - Chairman’s Statement & Report of Directors - Research & Development by F.S.Spring - H.Harris (Ivory) Limited of St.Ives, with photos of piano manufacture. - Fire Crew at Ilford – illustrated article about the brigade at work. - Photos of staff at the Old & New Bond Street offices in London, including Margaret Saunders, Jennifer James, Valerie Bushell, Gina Knight, Joan Lloyd, Rosamund Gryciuk, Susan Seidel, Kathy Allman, Moira Miller, Jennifer Nunn, Ruth Tombs, Shirley King, Susan Jenning, Eileen Brookes, Valerie Soloway, Pat Haygarth. - Appointment of William Hay and John James Yates as Personnel Managers (with photos) - Feature on Laporte in Western Australia. - Miss Lissa Galsgaard visits Stallingborough from Denmark - Carol Sparkes of Stallingborough completes 50 mile walk. - Apprentices at Stallingborough, with photo of Barry Curtis, Carl Kerby, James Broughton, Anthony Ailsby, Henry Dickie, William Turner, Donald Boylen, John Clarke, Richard Hopkins. - Wedding photographs of S.Hackay & C.Bratton, J.H.Tyson & D.M.Coates, A.Good & Irene Cowling, B.Smart & P.Walker. - 25 year club at Redhill, with photos and career history, with photos of C.Bundy, J.Sturt, M.Haylor, George Nelson Keates, D.V.Harding, T.H.Winterbottom, E.B.Ruualt, Lord Hill, A.J.Standing, F.H.Dungate. - Wedding photos of J.Keene & R.Coppard, I.Bernard & Julie Haynes. - Ilford 40 year veterans, with photos and career histories of F.W.Howe, A.G.Peterken, W.H.Whinney, F.G.Woodward - Inside the analytical lab at Ilford, with photos of staff including L.Blackett, R.Dawson, P.Chauhan, J.Riches, E.Glyde, S.Uppaladinni, R.Coker, P.Hazlewood, J.Patrick, J.Mensah, L.Arendt. - Photo of Luton Bowls team with their trophies R.A.Saunders, L.R.Reeves, S.G.A.Sargent, J.R.Hewitt, J.Harris, A.G.Turner & R.Burt. - 25 Years at Luton, photos and career history of Peter Alexander Fitzpatrick, Peter Harold Squires, K.M.Carrington, Sidney George Copperwaite, T.K.Jamieson. - Retirement and death of William Amos Day & Patrick O’Toole. - RospA presentations to Luton drivers; R.Owen, E.Thomas, L.Stevenson, E.Griska, R.Evans, J.W.Jones, F.Foster, R.Hayhoe, M.J.Nicholls, J.Moulding, B.Bennell, R.Kew, G.E.Collins. - Photos of prize winning apprentices ad others; David Weeks, John Horabin, Barry A.Smith, Sylvia Price, Harry Brereton. - Students at Warrington, with photos of Sean Murphy, P.J.Barnes and G.V.Horner. - Photos of new staff at Baronet works including K.H.Leith, J.N.Archer, L.A.Howarth, M.Bradbury, E.Holt, G.Fox, D.Leigh, A.J.Robinson, P.M.McMahon, A.Gennard. - Ayokunle Babatunde Solake from Nigeria trains at Warrington. - Roger Armistead forms chess and bridge clubs. - Photo of Roger Evans, who rescued Charlotte Tonks from the River Aire. - Retirement of A.C.Nicholson from Castleford, with photo of his retirement presentation. - New weighbridge at Castleton, with photos including Ron Binns. - J.W.Auty of Castleford and his collection of vintage bicycles. - Wedding photos of John Roger Holmes & Betty Geary, Mr & Mrs Trevor Bullard, Harold Harland & Carol Howe. - ‘Wakes’ Queens Dawn Gratton and Lynda Mary Lomas, both employed at Laporte, Eyam.
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