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  • Business Dinners etc.

    Business Dinners etc.

    01/06/2013
    An insight into the days of communicating with the engineering and business fraternity!
  • Apprentice intake 1970

    Apprentice intake 1970

    28/05/2013
    Click on the photograph to enlarge the image. I have attached a photo of the 1970 apprentice intake which I trust ...
  • Winners of the Inter-platoon Competition

    Winners of the Inter-platoon Competition

    24/05/2013
    Ken Daniell recalls why this "very efficient" unit won a cup
  • A conference on Fielding's, Lister's, and the Wagon Works

    A conference on Fielding's, Lister's, and the Wagon Works

    21/05/2013
    On 31 August 2013, 10.00am-1.00pm
  • Phil Allen

    Phil Allen

    20/05/2013
    Apprentice 1971-5: the Boiler Yard, having your palm read in the Pipe Shop, becoming groundsman at Hempsted, & more...
  • Henry Arthur Williams

    Henry Arthur Williams

    29/04/2013
    Apprentice Moulder in the Foundry from 1897 and later company Gateman
  • Arthur Williams

    Arthur Williams

    29/04/2013
    Apprentice Machinist and Centre Lathe Turner, 6 December 1938 - 28 October 1949
  • Edith May Williams (nee Willey)

    Edith May Williams (nee Willey)

    29/04/2013
    Wartime lathe operator in the Light Machine Shop, 1942-
  • John Cook recalls Reg Court and his "Chip Cutter"

    John Cook recalls Reg Court and his "Chip Cutter"

    25/04/2013
    Memories of the Light Machine Shop's Charge Hand in the 1950s
  • John Cook recalls the Heat Treatment Room, c.1950s

    John Cook recalls the Heat Treatment Room, c.1950s

    25/04/2013
    Oil, water, cyanide, and more...
  • Pippa Edwards remembers applepicking at Jack Fielding's farm, c.1939

    Pippa Edwards remembers applepicking at Jack Fielding's farm, c.1939

    25/04/2013
    Fielding and Platt Office Staff (Standing L-R) Gladys Harrison, Jill Jones, Mary Dyke, Molly Hanks, ? , Joan Tredgett, and ...
  • Atlas Works' rugby team, 1958

    Atlas Works' rugby team, 1958

    24/04/2013
    Click on the photograph to enlarge the image. Back Row (standing L-R) Jim Haines; The Referee; Norman Bidmead; ? John Proudlove; Barry ...
  • Apprentice dance, 1959

    Apprentice dance, 1959

    24/04/2013
    Click on the photograph to enlarge the image. Jim Simpson; Alan Jay; Dick Brain; Dave Gapp; Jim Rigby. Do you remember being ...
  • Apprentice outings, c. 1959

    Apprentice outings, c. 1959

    24/04/2013
    Click on each photograph to enlarge it. Thanks to Alan Stuart Jay for sending in these photographs. Do you remember being at ...
  • Andrew Fielding: Apprentice 1968-71 and son of FJ Fielding

    Andrew Fielding: Apprentice 1968-71 and son of FJ Fielding

    22/04/2013
    A message to all former employees
  • Fielding's female workers during World War II

    Fielding's female workers during World War II

    21/04/2013
    Can you name anyone in the photograph or do you have memories of them?
  • Alfred William Roach

    Alfred William Roach

    05/04/2013
    Storekeeper and Ambulance Class Instructor, c.1904-1948
  • Mr John Cole

    Mr John Cole

    03/04/2013
    Machinist, 1946-
  • 1600 ton Horizontal Extrusion Press, Number 9, O/No. E83130, c.1973

    1600 ton Horizontal Extrusion Press, Number 9, O/No. E83130, c.1973

    30/03/2013
    for Alcan, Banbury, 1973
  • Easter at Fielding and Platt

    Easter at Fielding and Platt

    26/03/2013
    What do you remember of Easter time at the company?
  • Notable Orders: 1990s.

    Notable Orders: 1990s.

    25/03/2013
    Some high-value orders and two interesting design studies.
  • The value of Fielding & Platt in 1909

    The value of Fielding & Platt in 1909

    24/03/2013
    The Lloyd George Survey of Land Values
  • John Burrows

    John Burrows

    23/03/2013
    Sales - Concrete
  • John Davis

    John Davis

    22/03/2013
    From Apprentice in 1949 to Junior Apprentice Instructor in 1953
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  • Gwyneth Atkinson, née Samuel on Winners of the Inter-platoon Competition

    05/08/2022
    Back row second in on the left, I believe, is my father, Stanley Selwyn Samuel, known as Taffy. Ed: Gwyneth,...
  • Evgeniy on 1500/1700 ton Horizontal Tube Extrusion Presses for direct & indirect processes, O/No. 4080, c.1942

    02/08/2022
    I'm not exactly sure, but maybe I'm working on this press right now. Ed: Many thanks for your comment. If...
  • Here & There Photos on Jim Fielding’s 1 1/2-litre Type 37 Grand Prix Bugatti

    30/06/2022
    I believe this photograph was taken in Tuffley Avenue where the family lived at that time.
  • Pete Wardle on 2100 ton Upstroking Multi-Daylight Platen Press, O/No. 3010, c.1951

    16/05/2022
    This press was resealed by Pete and Tom Wardle of Wessex Hydraulic Services. I am ex-Fielding & Platt. I currently...
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