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Richard Withey recalls how his grandfather started at Singer’s in 1900 and his father in 1936, and looks back at the heavy manual work that is now a thing of the past.
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Richard Withey recalls how his grandfather started at Singer’s in 1900 and his father in 1936, and looks back at the heavy manual work that is now a thing of the past.
In the late 1950s, Singer’s employed 600 to 800 people working in different departments. Rodney Clarke left Singer’s after four years. Robert Latchem worked in the die-casting department and later became self-employed working on structural steel jobs including Gibraltar’s first supermarket.
After answering an advertisement in the Bath Chronicle, Simon Giles became an office trainee at Singer’s. The firm later became Tyco, a subsidiary of Johnson Controls, a multinational company making fire sprinklers.
Steve Francis began his career at Singer’s as an apprentice and later become a senior design engineer. His timely intervention resulted in the saving of the firm’s precious collection of photographic plates.
Rodney Clarke drove first for Express Dairies, and later for English China Clays at Holwell Quarry. In this extract, he refers to the old Aust Ferry, which predated the building of the first Severn Bridge.
Ron White was an enterprising Frome taxi-driver. He set up Fountain Taxis, and then established Frome’s first taxi-rank, before going to Hertfordshire to work in the motor-racing industry.