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Fielding and Platt in World War II

Here you can listen to memories and see pictures of what Fielding and Platt was like during the Second World War.

We will be adding information on the Fielding and Platt Home Guard, the presses the company exported during the war, as well as memories and photographs of what it was like to work there between 1939-45.

If you remember the company in wartime and would like to contribute to the site then please either create your own page or email us at fieldingandplatthistory@gmail.com

  • Arthur Williams

    Arthur Williams

    Apprentice Machinist and Centre Lathe Turner, 6 December 1938 - 28 October 1949
  • Edith May Williams (nee Willey)

    Edith May Williams (nee Willey)

    Wartime lathe operator in the Light Machine Shop, 1942-
  • Employees told to carry gas masks at work

    Employees told to carry gas masks at work

    How Jack Fielding's kindness convinced Dennis Norman to carry his gas mask
  • ERIC ROBERT PENNING  The War Years

    ERIC ROBERT PENNING The War Years

    Eric recalls extrusion presses being manufactured and sent to Russia. One consignment didn’t reach its destination, having been torpedoed on ...
  • Fielding's female workers during World War II

    Fielding's female workers during World War II

    Can you name anyone in the photograph or do you have memories of them?
  • Forces Newsletter 1957

    Forces Newsletter 1957

    Letters from Employees to Fielding colleagues during their National Service.
  • Les Wheeler

    Les Wheeler

    Memories of WW2
  • Photographs of presses from 1941

    Photographs of presses from 1941

    Machines used in wartime production
  • Six female wartime workers and "Harold"?

    Six female wartime workers and "Harold"?

    Taken at Fielding's, 1945?
  • The Fielding float at Gloucester Carnival, 1942

    The Fielding float at Gloucester Carnival, 1942

    Daphne Collier recalls being on the float that encouraged workers to join
  • Walter Organ

    Walter Organ

    Memories of the clothing, rationing, air-raids, and more
  • Fielding and Platt Home Guard

    Fielding and Platt Home Guard (4)

    Photographs and memories of Fielding's Home Guard

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