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sparkymike · 28th Feb 2020, 3:24 pm

I can remember all the circuit boards being removed from their boxes, packed either side in bright coloured foam (Was it green or pink, memory fils me.)
They used to fill a skip with all the packaging.
I now remember the name of the clerk of works at Corton, It was Dave Banyard, a Lowestoft lad I think. Dick Crisp was another at Needham market, he came from Raydon in Suffolk, I knew him as a lad as I lived in same area.
One of the Plessey supervisors was Wally Scott. He wore glasses like those bulls eyes you get in old cottages. I well remember driving home from Harwich exchange, where we had been lifting some racks up to the first floor and there was a real pea souper of a fog and we were reduced to 20 mph or less and Wally came flying past us and I distinctly recall the guy in the passenger sheet looking rather worried. We assumed his thick glasses were X-ray specs !!
Mike.

28th Feb 2020, 3:24 pm	#9
sparkymike Octode Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Colchester, Essex, UK. Posts: 1,076	Re: TXE2 Exchanges I can remember all the circuit boards being removed from their boxes, packed either side in bright coloured foam (Was it green or pink, memory fils me.) They used to fill a skip with all the packaging. I now remember the name of the clerk of works at Corton, It was Dave Banyard, a Lowestoft lad I think. Dick Crisp was another at Needham market, he came from Raydon in Suffolk, I knew him as a lad as I lived in same area. One of the Plessey supervisors was Wally Scott. He wore glasses like those bulls eyes you get in old cottages. I well remember driving home from Harwich exchange, where we had been lifting some racks up to the first floor and there was a real pea souper of a fog and we were reduced to 20 mph or less and Wally came flying past us and I distinctly recall the guy in the passenger sheet looking rather worried. We assumed his thick glasses were X-ray specs !! Mike.