I started employment with Automotive Products (AP) in June 1976 (a very hot year!) with the grand title of ‘Group Photographic Controller’ at their headquarters in Tachbrook Road.
A vast site
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Frank Whittle was born in Earlsdon, Coventry, in 1907. His family moved to Leamington Spa where he attended Milverton School and then Leamington College for Boys. He worked in his ...
Royal visits don’t just happen … this much is revealed in the Willans Works engineering archives held here at Warwickshire County Record Office. Within the collection, a variety of records ...
Today (2015) most of the original British Thomson-Houston (BTH) factory buildings have been demolished but a few remnants have been incorporated into GE (interestingly a descendant of GEC who used to ...
This memorial commemorates former workers at the British Thomson-Houston factory who gave their lives during the two world wars. The inscription reads: ‘In Memory of the Men of the British ...
I started a five year student apprenticeship at Rugby, straight from school and home in Sussex in 1956. Competition for a place was strong. I believe there were 1,200 apprentices ...
The project to catalogue the records of the Rugby engineering firm Willans and Robinson has uncovered many topical references to the First World War.
Following the German invasion of Belgium on ...
I started work with AP in Banbury, which opened in 1962 in 80 acres of land. It was built to increase capacity in the supply of spare and replacement parts, ...
1 Victoria Engineering Works, Rugby, marked on 1923 map.
The site of Victoria Engineering Works, which is of modern date. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1923. The engineering works was situated 200m north east of Avenue Road, Rugby.
1 Wagon works marked on 1923 map.
The site of a railway wagon works which was in use during the Imperial period. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1923. It was situated at Rugby Station.
1 Electrical engineering works marked on the second edition Ordnance Survey Map. The site expanded north of the River Avon in the 1930s.
2 Site visit undertaken 19 Feb 2007 ...
The site of an electrical engineering works dating to the Imperial period. It is marked on the second edition Ordnance Survey map. The site is bounded by Leicester Road, Boughton Road, Mill Road and the railway line.
1 Wagon works marked on 1923 map.
The site of railway wagon works where railway wagons were made. The works are marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1923. They were situated north of Rugby Station.
1 Site of Bedworth Boiler Works marked on OS map of 1886.
The site of Bedworth Boiler Works where boilers were made and repaired during the Imperial period. The site is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1886. It was located on Leicester Road, Bedworth.
Cataloguing the Willans Works archive material at Warwickshire County Record Office is revealing some interesting facts, partly because of the efforts of volunteers who are helping with the collection. Their ...
The records of a Rugby-based engineering firm that pioneered the manufacture of steam engines and turbines for electricity generation are being catalogued by Warwickshire County Record Office in a project ...
Just two months into my first year at Coton House I was just getting used to motorbiking to work when the Suez crisis erupted and petrol rationing was introduced. Funds ...
After realising that I needed help from the apprentice welfare office, I was worried. I had in my mind that by failing to be self-supporting my whole future again threatened ...
Joseph Brookhouse (1759-1831) was in partnership with William Parkes and Samuel Crompton and together they owned a worsted manufacturing business in The Saltisford Warwick. The factory was established c. 1792 ...
Labour shortages caused by men joining the Armed Forces during the First World War led to many companies seeking help from overseas. One such organisation was Rugby-based engineering firm Willans ...