Wigan Album

Jimmy Mac, can you re-upload these set of photos again, when you scan them on your computer rotate them in the correct position before you upload them.
My necks too stiff to admire in detail these great engineered machines. Thank you. Col.

This series of photos have got to be strong contenders for 'The Most Boring Pictures of the Year Award'. It might help if they were the right way up.

Boring Wigan Wench!!
These photos show you what Wigan Engineers were producing in the 50's 60's and 70's. These machines were designed by built by wigan people,hundreds of engineers and skilled tradesmen male and female,and exported all over the world. Biggest, fastest, papermaking machines at the time, all made in the factories of Walmsleys in Wigan, Bolton, and Bury.
What can Wigan produce today ?.
Sit down and enjoy your can of beans.

Colin; If you right click on the photo and then click on `save picture as` and then `save` to your pictures. Then open in Windows Picture Gallery; you can then rotate it and also enlarge it.
Inverform, the first multi-wire experimental machine was designed and built by St. Anne's Board Mill, Bristol in 1951. After years of tests on the experimental machine, St. Anne's decided to have a production unit built and Walmsley's (Wigan) Limited built it for them.
I was deeply involved with the manufacture of this Inverform by having the engineering drawings made. Our first visit to see the prototype, in Bristol, was on Monday 12th April 1954.

Very well put Ted P. I stand chastised!

Steady on there Teddy, what are you trying to say Mr P, that there weren't/aren't any skilled engineers at Heinz? Quite a number of 'your'ie Walker's/Walmsley's time served men ended up at Heinz during my 20 years there.

Roy,Heinz fitters where maintenance men and good at that,but how many Draughtsmen,platers,paternmakers,foundry men and machinist did Heinz employ ? My point was engineering in Wigan is now dead. Sad.

Roy; please enlighten me on what the engineers at Heinz factory in Wigan do and have done.

I know what you're saying Ted, Walker's were an engineering company per se,Heinz had draughtsmen, machinists etc, i have worked at some of the biggest including Leyland Motors and yes engineering has all but gone from Wigan, but there are still some good engineers in Wigan. Ernest, the engineers at Heinz are still keeping the biggest food manufacturing company in the world in production.