• Reference
    X941/2/1/87
  • Title
    Laporte News. Vol.8.No.4 House Magazine of the Laporte Group of Companies.
  • Date free text
    Oct 1969
  • Production date
    From: 1969 To: 1969
  • Scope and Content
    House Magazine of the Laporte Group of Companies. - Reorganisation of top management structure, with photos of W.Woodhall, G.Hickson, F.S.Poole, H.E.Farmer, G.H.Maddra, R.M.Ringwald, G.F.Sommerville, Dr F.S.Spring. - Statement by the Chairman - Geological find at Eyam – chain coral - Laporte hydrogen peroxide used at Francis Webster & Sons Limited, Arbroath to make sailcloth. - Sulphuric acid plant at Widnes - Stone laying at Luton by Lord Hill upon expansion of site. - Containerised transport from Stallingborough. - Civil engineering uses of Bentonite - Communication throughout the Laporte sites, with photos including; Stan Tither, Derek Elson, Brian Healey, Leslie Roberts, Margaret Smith, Carol Nanson, S.Littlewood, Rosina Rath, Eileen Hare, Celia Tobin, Anne Pilling, Mrs Warner, Mrs Mercer, L.Hale, Marion Orr, Margaret Dobson, Margaret Weighill. - Photographs of the Rotherham site - Retirement of J.R.Hill, London, with photo. - Fred Davey completes his apprenticeship in Australia (photo). - Neil Maclean saved by safety helmet at Bunbury, Australia. - R.McBain receives RoSPA award for wearing safety goggles (photo) - Photo of new fire engine at Stallingborough, with J.Burden & J.Petchey. - Redhill osmosis plant. Includes photo of Bill Cosham. - 25 year club at Redhill, with photos including George Earle, Albert Clarke, Elvey Humphreys, John MacKay, Albert Upshall, Frederick Bird, William Woodhall, Derek Oliver, Cecil King. - Redhill twins double date – photo of Sandra & Pauline Coomber with Peter & Steven Chalk. - Mervyn Eric Manly, in charge of Laporte at Bath, with photo. - Retirement photos for F.C.White, W.Kempster & A.S.Brown.- Retirements of Elsie Bubbers, F.C.White, J.W.Bertenshaw, W.Kempster, James Arthur Cole, Fred Hoe, William E.Fry (photo), John Clarence Pell, W.G.Collins. - Long Service Awards at Widnes, with photo of W.Hay, D.J.Hoyle, W.Shreeve, D.H.Cutler, J.O’Neil, J.Burgess, H.C.Smith. - Feature on racing motorcyclist Colin Birkenhead of Warrington. - Photo of Warrington artist Frank Goodwin - Despatch department at Warrington, with photos of J.Rustage, B.O’Neil, K.Allen. - Rag Week for apprentices of Luton – photo of Graham Burkitt, John Yeatman, Steven Peters and Simon Mullis of horse & cart. - Miss Laporte at Luton photo of winner Delia Young with runners up Jennifer Mccallig & Joyce Methven. - Apprentice Prizewinners at Luton, with photo including M.R.Churchyard, A.Clennett, A.J.Pszenica, G.Fuller, C.S.Garner, J.S.C.Smith, K.J.Donnelly, F.L.Rogers, A.J.Bunker, K.M.Dear, K.Cosby, M.E.G.St Amour, C.H.Groom. - Australians visit Luton - Plant managers at Castleford; Denis Greenwood Rigg & Ray Holland. - Feature on G.Malcolm Dungeworth ,Eyam, and his involvement in Speed Hill Climbing motor racing, with photo. - Photo of new 25 year club members at Eyam, A.E.Jinks, D.Brown, E.Dronfield. - Retirements of L.T.Cosgrove & T.K.Jamieson, Luton; Arthur Dakin & Arthur Arnold (photo), Eyam; H Sykes, Castleford. - Obituaries for Alfred Spencer, Ivor Paul Llewellyn, Frederick Richard Binks, Douglas Edward Ellis, Charles Leslie Tricklebank.
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    item