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  • Company timeline: 1900s

    Company timeline: 1900s

    22/01/2013
    The first vacuum cleaner and people news
  • Bryan Mason

    Bryan Mason

    21/01/2013
    From apprentice in 1948 to Machine Shop Foreman
  • John Cook remembers the Light Machine Shop, c.1950

    John Cook remembers the Light Machine Shop, c.1950

    18/01/2013
    Setting, grinding, and why machinists had lumps of copper and lead in their tool boxes
  • "Fast right arm over the wicket"

    "Fast right arm over the wicket"

    18/01/2013
    The draughtsman John Fielding's sketch of a bowler
  • Maps of the Fielding and Platt Works and The Bristol Road, 1952

    Maps of the Fielding and Platt Works and The Bristol Road, 1952

    18/01/2013
    Taken from Goad Insurance Maps at Gloucestershire Archives
  • John Cook recalls a typical day in the Fitting Shop in the early 1950s

    John Cook recalls a typical day in the Fitting Shop in the early 1950s

    17/01/2013
    From drawings & plans, to fettling & fitting
  • Fielding's XV vs The Hobbledioys

    Fielding's XV vs The Hobbledioys

    17/01/2013
    An annual tradition at the end of each season
  • John Cook

    John Cook

    17/01/2013
    Apprentice 1948/9-1955
  • John Cook recalls the Heavy Machine Shop, 1948-55

    John Cook recalls the Heavy Machine Shop, 1948-55

    17/01/2013
    Memories of the crane drivers, their "slingers", the tea trolley and practical jokes
  • Apprentice intake August 1946

    Apprentice intake August 1946

    16/01/2013
    Click on the photograph to enlarge the image. Back row (standing L-R) Mr Fairbrother; Ken Spurrier; Geoff Tunstall; Michael Howells; Bill Prior. Front ...
  • Atlas Works' rugby team 1948-1949

    Atlas Works' rugby team 1948-1949

    10/01/2013
    Click on the photograph to enlarge the image. Back row (L-R) Jim Haines; ? ; Ken Spurrier; ? ; Bill Shanks; Frank ...
  • Atlas Works' rugby team 1936-1937

    Atlas Works' rugby team 1936-1937

    10/01/2013
    Click on the photograph to enlarge the image. Back row (L-R) E Blake; R Turner; V Knight; J Beard; W Herbert; H ...
  • Atlas Works' rugby team 1945-1946

    Atlas Works' rugby team 1945-1946

    10/01/2013
    First XV
  • Charles Ford

    Charles Ford

    09/01/2013
    Light Machine Shop, 1964-1981
  • David Jones

    David Jones

    09/01/2013
    From Apprentice in 1950 to Installation and Acceptance Engineer
  • William "Bill" Prior

    William "Bill" Prior

    05/01/2013
    Pattern-maker and foreman 1916-1949
  • The Battle of the Boot

    The Battle of the Boot

    04/01/2013
    Apprentices vs Journeymen
  • Ken Juggins and colleague

    Ken Juggins and colleague

    04/01/2013
    Pipe benders in the 1970s
  • Jack Fielding's daughter, Pippa, discusses her father's Christmas cards

    Jack Fielding's daughter, Pippa, discusses her father's Christmas cards

    19/12/2012
    Sketched by a draughtsman, printed by a photographer
  • Pippa Edwards recalls Christmas at Fieldings as a child

    Pippa Edwards recalls Christmas at Fieldings as a child

    19/12/2012
    Christmas Parties and an important decision by Jack Fielding and the directors
  • Apprentice intake 1969

    Apprentice intake 1969

    19/12/2012
    Click on the photograph to enlarge the image. Back row (standing L-R) Dave Howells; Richard Webb; Chris Gwilliam; John Smurthwaite; Mike Parker; Lothar ...
  • BBC Great British Story Day

    BBC Great British Story Day

    18/12/2012
    Launching the project telling Gloucester's engineering history
  • Samuel Fielding

    Samuel Fielding

    17/12/2012
    From farmer's son to foundry founder
  • Children's Christmas Party photogallery

    Children's Christmas Party photogallery

    17/12/2012
    Who do you recognise in the photos?
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Latest comments
  • 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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