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H. J. Heinz, Kitt Green

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'57 NEWS'  September 1964
'57 NEWS' September 1964
Photo: RON HUNT
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Item #: 33653
Front cover of the In House magazine '57 NEWS'. Shows Max Finney £400, jumping for joy,and Stan Jackson £405, Kitt Green factory. With their suggestions award cheques A considerable amount in 1964.

Comment by: Poet on 12th April 2022 at 16:30

Both gents are wearing coloured staff collars , red for production line supervisors or green for more administrative roles . Everyone else would be in plain white except cleaners in brown and fitters in blue . 'Japanese sniper ' caps with a flap on the back for blokes with long hair . Wellies for those in veg prep or the cleaning department .
The cleaners didn't really clean things up in the conventional sense ,
they were more like firemen with ultra high powered steam hoses that more or less obliterated anything in their way .

Comment by: John G on 12th April 2022 at 17:35

Thanks for that Poet, I wondered why the beans tasted watery.
My Dad used to work there( Kit Green) for about fourteen years, he died in 1979.
He was on the bean line, but we always had H P beans, the sauce was thicker. My be that’s why Poet, they didn’t have Japanese snipers with wellies on!

Comment by: Cyril on 12th April 2022 at 19:26

According to a comparitive website £400 would be worth around £8,000 today, so worthwhile putting in those workplace ideas or suggestions

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