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English Electric Staff booklet, c1965
Pages from the English Electric Staff booklet 65a00 showing:-
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English Electric Board |
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Marconi Board |
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M.I. Board & Managers |
Visit from K. Kandiah O.B.E. of Harwell
On 12th January Mr. K. Kandiah of Harwell - an old friend who I came to know while I was at the Cavendish Laboratory - visited me at St. Albans for some reason which I have now forgotten. I always enjoyed talking with him, largely I suppose on account of his gentle courteous disposition. During our conversation he told me how he had heard about his O.B.E. - perhaps the honour had been announced on the New Year day just passed - and that it had. made the distress of losing his only son in a motor cycling accident a little easier to bear.
Profile of Marconi Instruments, early April 1965
Makers of electronic measuring instruments especially for telecommunications. Turnover £5M p.a. About 2,000 employees.
Marconi Instruments, Ltd. is a subsidiary of Marconi Company (£50M) which in turn is a subsidiary of English Electric Company (£250M approx). English Electric Company also includes Elliott Automation.
M.I. Head Office and Works are at St. Albans. M.I. Sanders Division acquired in 1964 and specialising in microwave equipment, is at Stevenage. Service Depot is at Luton.
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Sir Gordon Radley
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| Managing Director |
Mr. R.E. Burnett from 1959
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| Directors |
Mr. F.N. Sutherland Dr. E. Eastwood. Prof. H.E.M Barlow (from Dec 1964) P. de Lazlo
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| Commercial Manager |
Mr. J. Brodrick (from Aug 1964)
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| Engineering Manager |
Mr. A.G. Wray (from Jan1964)
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| Research Manager |
Mr. H.V. Beck (from Jan1964)
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| Works Manager (St.Albans) |
Mr. M. Kelsey (from Mar 1965)
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| General Manager (Sanders) |
Mr. S.G. Spooner (from Dec 1964?)
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Family visit to France
From 4th to 13th June 1965 we paid our first family visit to France. We took our car out on a sea ferry and back on an air ferry.
Les 3 Princesses!
First weekly visit to Mother in Henley Hospital?
Saturday 25th September was probably when we first visited Mother in Henley Hospital, where she was moved while the geriatric ward of Wokingham Hospital was being redecorated.
Simulation of a high-class restaurant
The visit to Letchworth College on IEE business was probably the occasion when the restaurant there simulated a very high class establishment. The tables were beautifully set out with spotless linen cloths as well as napkins and adorned with flowers. Superbly upholstered chairs were moved by the very chic waitress students to accommodate us as we took our places. Warm bread rolls were offered from linen-covered baskets, a silver-domed carving trolley containing a magnificent saddle of lamb was being wheeled around, and so on. The menu was entirely in French and comprised a variety of gourmet dishes for each course. There was just one feature in which the simulation departed grossly from reality, namely the prices. In today's currency the Oeuf en Cocotte was all of l¾p while among the main dishes the d'Agneau Roti was an outrageous 6p!
Another Masonic Chair
During 1965 I was as active in Freemasonry as I could be given all the other activities - domestic, industrial and professional. Lucan Pratt, Senior Tutor of Christ's College was W.M. of Alma Mater and it was a pleasure to associate with him in Lodge.
On Wednesday 20th January I spent a pleasant evening attending a meeting of the Harpenden Royal Arch Chapter as a guest of S.W. (Bill) Lowe G.M.
The high point of the year was on 19th October, when I was installed in the Chair of my Royal Arch Chapter, Euclid No. 859. This was for members of Isaac Newton University Lodge No. 859 (the Cambridge undergraduates' Lodge) as well as Alma Mater Lodge No.1492 (primarily for senior members of Cambridge and Oxford Universities).
Usually only the Officers and Past Masters of the Chapter are listed annually but when after a number of years a full list of members, in alphabetical order, was circulated I discovered that George Whipple was a member. I think by this time he had died.
There was also a P.A.F. Buck M.P. appearing next on the list after my name. He must have let his membership lapse for much later, when he was Parliamentary Ombudsman and I was making minor ripples at Westminster, he applied to rejoin. However, he did not proceed with his application. I never met or communicated with him Masonically or otherwise.
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