Part 6: The Whiffler Road Factory 1976 to 2002 ( The GEI Years )

Photo Ref: AW0957 Courtesy of Jon Bye

Below is a photo sent to us by Jon Bye, taken at the NEC exhibition centre in Birmingham during the early 90s. The machine on display was the first electronic Flow-wrapper to be produced by Autowrappers. This was the FT310 servo motor based machine, the young lad on the right running the machine is John Marlee who is now the Managing Director of Bradman Lake the current manufacturer of Autowrappers machines. also in the middle of the photo is Gordon Bell, the AW sales manager.