This view illustrates the benefits of the new erection hall building, especially the height available for building large vertical machines.
As a point of note, photo no. 7899 was the last recorded photograph taken by the Fielding & Platt Photographic Dept., in Nov. 1974.
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John, I think you are correct.
Hi John and Jim! I’m sure it is Brian Bowsher talking to Ray Gardner and I have feeling that the taller of the two men above could be Terry Sagar. He came down to F&P from Vickers and did a lot of site work on the Clearing presses. I remember going to the Crane Freuff(?) lorry trailer factory at Deerham(?) in Norfolk with him and an apprentice named Chris Anderson. I can’t remember exactly what the job involved, but we did have a mobile crane in to do some heavy lifting. An everlasting memory I have of Terry on that job is of him standing on the edge of the platen/tool carrier while the press was running and he is going up and down with it, madness I know, but then that was Terry! Oh, and I seem to remember he had a reputation for driving somewhat fast! Chippy Aston.
The only person I recognize is Ray Gardner, left, lower level.
Talking to Brian Bowsher, maybe? John B
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