Annewiggy
Tamworth |
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Thu 6th Mar 2025 10:45am
Yes Rob, the Express lift company was created by GEC Northampton in 1917.
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Rob Orland
Historic Coventry |
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Thu 6th Mar 2025 12:06pm
Ooh, I never knew that - thank you!
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Helen F
Warrington |
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Thu 3rd Apr 2025 4:54pm
I know that there used to be an old house that fronted Spon Street at the corner of Crow Lane, and its gardens were gradually taken over by factories. I know that it was recessed from the road slightly. I know that it grew a much later extension partly over the front and down the Crow Lane side. You can partly see it in this great photo by Fourtoes. My theory is that it was Georgian and built for Sir Thomas Geary MP. It looks like it was still standing after the war but damaged. I don't expect anyone to remember it but can anyone remember talk of it by their much older colleagues when they were there?
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20A-Manor House
Coventry |
109 of 116
Thu 17th Apr 2025 11:50pm
A nice GEC item that was on ebay, until I clicked on 'Buy it now' ;
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Rob Orland
Historic Coventry |
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Fri 18th Apr 2025 10:21am
That's a super item, 20A - very tactile looking!
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Helen F |
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Fri 18th Apr 2025 2:07pm
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20A-Manor House |
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Fri 18th Apr 2025 2:47pm
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Choirboy
Bicester |
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Thu 1st May 2025 10:35am
Out of the blue my YouTube feed recommended GEC 405 line Television factory Coventry 1960. Apologies if this has already been mentioned here.
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Rob Orland
Historic Coventry |
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Fri 2nd May 2025 10:24am
No need to apologise, I enjoyed watching it again after a few years.
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Slim
Another Coventry kid |
115 of 116
Sun 4th May 2025 1:36pm
Despite doing TV repairs as a lucrative hobby from the mid 70s, I didn't realise pcbs were used in TVs as early as 1960. All the TVs from the earlier era that I encountered had hand-wired steel chassis.
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Rob Orland
Historic Coventry |
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Mon 5th May 2025 9:49am
I was pleasantly surprised, too, to see "our" GEC using PCBs as early as 1960 (so presumably before that, also), but my wife watched the whole video with interest last night, as from the late 1980s she worked in production and ran the flow soldering machine herself - and Bev said that the basic techniques had not changed significantly in three decades!
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