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This press is still working in Saudi Arabia. I put it there along with the paint plant.
Hi Bob! Many thanks for this useful information. Please tell us more for our records, like when was the press installed in Saudi, what company purchased the press and whom were you working with at the time? Any other information would be useful. John B
I can’t add anything about the press in these photos, but I do vaguely remember the man operating the press in picture 1, and the reason for that is that I bought some second-hand cassette tapes from him around about 1973!
Our paths crossed when Keith Parker and myself were working on an extrusion press that we were installing just down the road from the Fielding works. The press was for Westward Aluminium and I seem to remember there was some sort of tie up between them and Indalex in Cheltenham. It may even have been something entirely separate from Indalex, but set up by people who used to work there, hence man in photo turning up at Westward Aluminium as one of the new operatives (I think) down the Bristol Road.
Funny old world isn’t it!
Chippy Aston
I operated this press from 1975 for several years, it was the third extrusion press at Indalex, I was there for 17 years. A colleague was killed by the ram during a summer shutdown while on maintenance.
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