tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152950892272252636.post5521219395584025391..comments2024-03-26T14:25:37.365-07:00Comments on Edith's Streets: River Brent - AlpertonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152950892272252636.post-5906531675155242512023-04-22T10:21:20.661-07:002023-04-22T10:21:20.661-07:00I was a trainee Tool maker at Atcraft Engineering,...I was a trainee Tool maker at Atcraft Engineering, Alperton in 1964. I remember making and repairing press tools that stamped out the component parts of foldable garden furniture frames. We also took on contract work for clients requiring turning and milling services, between our own projects. <br /><br />I remember the most boring job I was assigned to was to reduce the size of the axle shafts for wheelchairs being fitted with new wheels for London Zoo. I had to reduce the diameter of the axle shafts by hand on a centre lathe. It was mind-numbing. I was paid £1-17-6 per week, (£1.75 in today's money) for a 48-hour week. Now that would be regarded as slave labour now.<br /><br />I remember thinking at the time I need a better-paid job because petrol prices had just been increased in price to 2 shillings and six pence a gallon, (£0.027 pence per litre. yes less than 3 pence per litre). I quit Atcraft and went to work for the Glacier metal company also in Alperton. <br /><br />Funny how life pans out. I took early retirement from work in 2003 after 20 years of service as a Computer Systems Consultant for a World renowned international company.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152950892272252636.post-19679962071864904162019-03-06T08:22:48.297-08:002019-03-06T08:22:48.297-08:00Atcraft Works, home of E Atkins Ltd., occupied a s...Atcraft Works, home of E Atkins Ltd., occupied a site stretching from opposite Alperton station, in Ealing Road, to the canal. Polybags Ltd rented space and moved to Lyon Way Greenford in the 1990's on the closure of the more than a century old E Atkins Ltd.<br />E Atkins made nursery and garden furniture. Polybags extruded poythene film in association with E Atkins as Atak Ltd, and converted the film to bags as Polybags Ltd.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com