bentley1930
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- Joined
- Mar 30, 2015
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Hi All,
Sorry about this off piste trip down memory lane!
The Wickman plate on the Shaublin mill reminds me of my apprenticeship at Matrix (Coventry Gauge & Tool co ltd) which was situated next to the Wickman factory on the Fletchamstead highway in Coventry.
Sometimes at lunchtime, rather than eating in the Matrix canteen, we apprentices used to buy sandwiches at the adjacent newspaper shop on the corner between the factories which faced the Standard Motor Company exit and watched the Triumph TR2`s being driven out for testing down the highway which in those days did not have a speed limit.
The TR2`s had their windscreens removed and were tested up to 100 mph along the highway which was one of the few dual carraigeways in Coventry back in the 50`s. The test drivers were like gods to us they wore reversed flat caps and pilot`s goggles just like the drivers at prewar Brooklands.
Happy Days, or were they?
Alan
Sorry about this off piste trip down memory lane!
The Wickman plate on the Shaublin mill reminds me of my apprenticeship at Matrix (Coventry Gauge & Tool co ltd) which was situated next to the Wickman factory on the Fletchamstead highway in Coventry.
Sometimes at lunchtime, rather than eating in the Matrix canteen, we apprentices used to buy sandwiches at the adjacent newspaper shop on the corner between the factories which faced the Standard Motor Company exit and watched the Triumph TR2`s being driven out for testing down the highway which in those days did not have a speed limit.
The TR2`s had their windscreens removed and were tested up to 100 mph along the highway which was one of the few dual carraigeways in Coventry back in the 50`s. The test drivers were like gods to us they wore reversed flat caps and pilot`s goggles just like the drivers at prewar Brooklands.
Happy Days, or were they?
Alan