tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693775542020483450.post1708519395707507535..comments2024-03-29T03:14:14.667-04:00Comments on Progress is fine, but it's gone on for too long.: Vanished Tool Makers: Alfred Bullows & Sons, Ltd., Walsall, EnglandMister Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17663484841011868779noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693775542020483450.post-6543705817356674262023-12-07T15:42:56.218-05:002023-12-07T15:42:56.218-05:00I met my wife while we were both working at Binks ...I met my wife while we were both working at Binks - Bhllows in Brownhills. I started a Commercial Apprenticeship aged 15 on August 7th 1967. My wife joined as a Postal & Filing Clerk in 1973 aged 16. I became Accounts Office Manager then head of IT (Organisation & Methods Manager). We married in 1979 & I left BB in 1981. My wife left in 1982 to have our daughter. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693775542020483450.post-67352529181186010402022-02-14T14:52:54.897-05:002022-02-14T14:52:54.897-05:00Never too late! I'm always looking for informa...Never too late! I'm always looking for information on these old companies. I can be reached at gerald@vanwyngaarden.caMister Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17663484841011868779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693775542020483450.post-82934133453223562862022-02-14T13:52:34.917-05:002022-02-14T13:52:34.917-05:00It is probably far too late, but perhaps I can hel...It is probably far too late, but perhaps I can help with some background on the Bullows business in it's earlier days. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02958204901634615801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693775542020483450.post-10878780566247612362019-03-07T15:19:50.627-05:002019-03-07T15:19:50.627-05:00Thanks for your story and insights into the compan...Thanks for your story and insights into the company. Much appreciated. Truly different times.Mister Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17663484841011868779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693775542020483450.post-61288633546683066072019-03-07T15:01:44.711-05:002019-03-07T15:01:44.711-05:00My father worked for this company in the 1950,s ea...My father worked for this company in the 1950,s early 1960,s.<br />He was a sales rep for them , Bullows had an office in Bridge St , just off Deansgate Manchester .It was just up the road from George Best,s boutique ! I used to travel around the north with him during my holidays and he would visit various factories that were still painting everything from tractors to children's rubber balls , by hand ! His job was to persuade the owners to convert to spray guns .He was probably putting folk out of work! If a company has a broken piece of equipment my father would rather try and repair it than sell them a new model , so he wasn't a very good salesman from that pointnof view . He must have been on a good wage as my sisters and I had private education .<br />I have one thing to thank Bullows for and that as long as I can remember we had a car ...all through the 50's and early 60's ! Every two years we would travel down to Walsall were my dad would be presented with a new car ! Manchester was a dirty city then but he was able to take us out around Derbyshire ,Cheshire and regular trips to Cornwall in the Bullows car ! <br />He was made reduntant some time in the early sixties and got a new job with Air Industrial Developments . I have vividness memories of people painting all a companies products by hand .Its hard to believe that this ever happened now .<br />The good old days ..Mike Ramsay e. mdramsay@yahoo.co.uk <br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10985272154857136517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693775542020483450.post-14168440185502724402018-01-10T09:43:13.905-05:002018-01-10T09:43:13.905-05:00Sorry, all the info I have is in the post.Sorry, all the info I have is in the post.The Dukehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01482698067925791608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2693775542020483450.post-26260458009259760902018-01-10T05:53:10.011-05:002018-01-10T05:53:10.011-05:00I am a professional writer currently writing a tru...I am a professional writer currently writing a true life history for someone who lived in Walsall at the time of WW2. I am trying to find some information about Alfred Bullows & Sons Ltd making hand grenades but there isn't anything available.<br />Can anyone help, please?<br />thank you<br />MaggieMaggienoreply@blogger.com