The People of Auto-Wrappers Whiffler Road factory
Whiffler Road workshop with (back left) Jack Lowe (front left) Ted "Bunny" Smith and (right) Johnny Dye
Thanks to Kelvin Woodard for help with names
Photo Ref: AW0050
Anybody
fancy
a
Polo? ....
Dick
Gash
(
left
)
worked
at
Auto
Wrappers
from
1952
to
his
retirement
in
1995.
This
photo
was
taken
in
1978
at
the
Autowrappers
Factory
on
Whiffler
Road
looking
at
the
Polo
Cartoning
Machine
are
Dick
Gash,
Reg
Suffolk,
Paul
Leak
(front)
from
the
Drawing
office.
Cardboard
cartons
came
down as flat packs, glued by the machine, formed then filled up with Polo’s.
Photo Ref: AW0210 Photo Courtesy of Simon and Dick Gash
1978 Dick Gash at Whiffler Road working on a twin feed Super 2000 Roll Wrap and Cartoner
Photo Ref: AW0218 Photo Courtesy of Simon and Dick Gash, and thanks to Geoff King and Dick Bull for filling in the missing names
People are:
1: Billy Allen
2: Dave Garnet
3: Stanley Osbourne
4: Jack Lowe
5: Bob Bull
6: Ken Kalinski
7: George Proudfoot
8: Dick Gash
1978 Autowrappers at an exhibition
Left to right, Mike Bangay, Barry Moore, Malcom Gurney, Robert Brown.
All Development Engineers standing in front of Machine in an exhibition (Probably Birmingham)
Photo Ref: AW0217 Photo Courtesy of Simon and Dick Gash
Brian Woods and Ian White
Photo Ref: AW0052
Stephen Pope on the centre lathe ( foreground )
Lenny Beard on the Herbert 4 Capstan Lathe taken between 1967 to 1969
Photo Ref: AW0053
Malcom Gurney, Roger Knight, Tommy Neil, Barry Moore.
Photo Ref: AW0098
The Whiffler Road Crew
Photo Ref: AW096
01 Rodney Townley
02 Roger Woodrow
03 Chris Crowe
04 Brian Crome
05 Alan Smith
06 Alan McDonald
07 Paul Holmes
08 Andy Mattless
09 David Aldridge
10 David Tuddenham
11 Alan Lappin
12 Andy Gill
13 Dave Brighty
14 Karl Stolworthy
15 John Tink
16 Bob Lincoln
(Whiffler Road ) Bob Tyrell, Jonny Johnson, Stephen (Pickles) Nichols
Photo Ref: AW0070
( Whiffler Road ) Andy Mattless, Jonny Johnson.
Photo Ref: AW0072
Photo Ref: AW0154 Courtesy of Phil and Carol White.
1, John Cassey
2, Ron Punchcard
3, Phil White
4, John Dye.
5, Fred Hare.
6, Steven Durrant.
7, Bertie Stone.
Photo Ref: AW0155 Courtesy of Phil and Carol White.
Thanks to Julian Woods and Danny Corder for help with missing names
1, Nigel Dunthorne
2, Julian Woods
3, Roy Lee
4, John Bartlett
5, Clive Ulmer
6, Paul Wright
7, Bertie Stone
8, Danny Corder
9, John Dye
10, Lee Payne
11, Peter Billings
12, Fred Hare
13, Mark Freestone
14, Chris Rayner
15, Ray Hannant
Photo Ref: AW0156 Courtesy of Phil and Carol White. taken in 1984
1, Phil White
2, Caroline Saniford
3, Don Trimble
4, John Cranmer.
5, Julian Woods.
6, Rex Burr.
7, Michael Harvey.
8, Peter Billings.
9, David King.
10, David Whyles.
11, David Garnet.
12, Geoff Bloomfield.
13, David Mortimer.
14, Roy Cooke.
15, Adrian Gardener.
16, Brian Daynes.
17, Erie Rose.
18, John Wythe.
19, Michael Knights.
20, Fred Coubrough.
Thanks to Kelvin Woodard for helping with the name of Number 4 and Adrian Warnes for the name of Number 1
Photo Ref: AW0157 Courtesy of Phil and Carol White.
1, Malcolm Lake
2, Phil White
3, Kelvin Woodard.
4, Roland Catchpole
Photo Ref: AW0158 Courtesy of Phil and Carol White.
1, Julian Woods.
2, Clive Ulmer.
3, Phil White.
4, Tony Cannell-Smith.
5, John Wythe.
6, Dick Gash.
7, Kevin Haylock.
8, Dick Payne.
9, Mike Perfect.
10, Michael Knights.
The Auto-Wrappers Sheet Metal Shop Crew from 1997
Photo Ref: AW0220 Photo Courtesy of Paul TInk
1. Steve Denby.
2. Brian Chrome.
3. Steve Nichols.
4. David Howell.
5. Kelly.
6. Bob Tyrell.
7. Les Gouch.
8. Craig Bryant.
9. Dick Bull.
10. Tom Durrance.
11. Terry Bradford.
The photo belows shows Dennis Smith (on the right) testing a Super 2000 Roll Wrapper, Dennis was a Chief
Design Engineer at Autowrappers
( Thanks to Sarah Allerton for letting us know that Denis is her father )
Photo Ref: AW0231 Photo Courtesy of Richard Rush and Trevor
Kirby
Another day in the office Graham Conway, David Garnet and David Mortimer.
Photo Ref: AW0259 Photo Courtesy of David Mortimer
Another day in the office with David Mortimer.
Photo Ref: AW0258 Photo Courtesy of David Mortimer
Making sure the Customers get the correct parts (after tea break that is)
Barbara Myhill, David Mortimer, and Roger Knight.
Photo Ref: AW0260 Photo Courtesy of David Mortimer
One day i will get myself a Boat thinks ..... Roger Knight
Photo Ref: AW0261 Photo Courtesy of David Mortimer ( photo taken in late 2000 )
David Mortimer and Julian Woods
Photo Ref: AW0262 Photo Courtesy of David Mortimer
It was decided by others at Autowrappers that Morty's bike lacked some Christmas spirit, but it was soon rectified !
Photo Ref: AW0263 Photo Courtesy of David Mortimer
Sometimes it wasn’t always easy at Autowrappers, when things got tough staff were paid by other means
Photo Ref: AW0264 Photo Courtesy of David Mortimer
Morty predicting the future in 2019 for an unknown draughtsman .... ( Drawn in 1979 )
Photo Ref: AW0266 Photo Courtesy of David Mortimer
David Warner popping into the office to say Hi
Photo Ref: AW0267 Photo Courtesy of David Mortimer. photo taken late 2000
John Plumstead and Mike Knights.
Photo Ref: AW0271 Photo Courtesy of David Mortimer
A very sad and poignant polaroid photo taken by David Mortimer, just after the passing of Mike Knights .... a man
who is a legend in the Autowrappers fraternity....... in the photo .. Geoff Bloomfeild (left) John Colk (right)
Photo Ref: AW0282 Photo Courtesy of David Mortimer and Thanks to Julian Woods for the name of the guy on the right.
Roger Knight RIP 2017
Kevin Haylock making some fine tuning adjustments to a super 4000 roll wrapper in the style of a certain engineer.
Photo Ref: AW0645 Photo Courtesy of Jon Bye