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• Alf Welch – Service Instructor in Market Promotion and Training - On the first anniversary of the launch of this website archive we thought we’d write something about Alf Welch.
• Bill Clarke – Inspection Spares Stores - BILL CLARKE (65), retired from Inspection in Spares Stores at Fletch. South after 32 years’ broken service with the Company.
• Thomas Patrick Fay – Production Control Engineer - Thomas Patrick Fay – Production Control Engineer.
• Foremen – Recognise Anyone? - A photo we have been sent through, with a snippet of information confirming this lineup is a group of Standard Triumph Foremen. Can you help identify anyone or the location?
• Cyril Wright – Spares Division - Cyril Wright (65), retired from the Company recently after nearly 35 years’ service in Spares Division at Coventry.
• Dave Gleed – Competition Dept. - The Standard Triumph Competition Department was situated within the same building as the Service Division, on the Birmingham Road, Allesley, Coventry.
• Harry Reynolds - My name is Harry Reynolds.
• Harry George – Spares Stores - Laughing Harry George was a storekeeper in Spares Stores, Fletch South for 21 years.
• George Patrick – Maintenance - George Patrick 66, a chargehand electrician in Maintenance, Canley, retired after 30 years service.
• James Grey – Cutter Grinding Section - James Grey retires at 76 from the Standard Triumph Works.
• Edgar Ashley – Storekeeper No 10 Stores - Edgar Ashley a storekeeper in No. 10 Stores, CanIey, retired after 18 years’ service at Standard Triumph.
• George Addison – Progress Chaser - George Addison (65), a progress chaser in TooIroom, Fletch., retired after 31 years of good service.
• George Turnbull - George Henry Turnbull, motor industry executive,  born 17 October 1926.
• Alexander Craig – Works Manager - Alexander Craig was the very first Works Manager for the fledgling company of The Standard Motor Co.
• Edward (Ted) George Grinham - Mr. Edward George Grinham, a former deputy Managing Director of the Standard Motor Co., Coventry, has died at his home at the age of 78.
• Ian Burton – Triumph Publicity Wins Award - A brochure on the Triumph 2.5 PI, Mk.2, produced by Marketing Services of Rover/Triumph, won a national award recently. It was runner-up in the four colour section of the competition and was printed by Nuffield Press Ltd., Cowley, a member of British Leyland Motor Corporation.
• Norman Birch – Engine Test - Norman Birch (65), a fitter in Engine Test, Canley, retired after 29 years’ service.
• Go On – Get Involved… - It has occurred to us we have so much info from the early days (pre war, fifties and sixties) history from the Standard Triumph factories we don’t actually have that much info from those employees from the latter days.
• First Aid Course – Can You Help? - A photograph from a First Aid Course featuring the Standard Triumph Fire Service and a number of other attendees. Can you help identify anyone?
• Martin Burke – Maintenance - Martin Burke, (70), a fitter’s mate in Maintenance Department, Canley, retired (in 1972) after 29 years of valuable service.
• Florence Cross – Trim - Florence Cross (60), an inspector in Trim and Finish at Canley, retired after 31 years’ service with Standard Triumph.
• Charles and John Macartney - The story of two men who both worked for the same company – by one of them. The book is divided into two parts. The first part deals with the life and career of Charles Macartney, who joined The Standard Motor Company in 1921 as a mechanic in the Coventry Service Department. After two years, he became …

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• Sister Edna Durham - Edna Durham, Sister-in-Charge of Surgeries at Standard-Triumph in Coventry. Miss Durham started work with the Company in 1946, as a nurse. She was promoted to Sister-in-Charge of Surgeries in 1959. She liked to keep up modern methods of treatment and install new equipment. Dedicated to her work, she undertook studies in industrial welfare.
• George Cox – Spray Painter, Final Finish - George Cox, a spray painter in Final Finish, Canley, retired after over 22 years’ service.
• Chris Andrews (President of Standard-Triumph Motor Co) - CE Andrews was appointed President of Standard-Triumph Motor Co.. New York, with effect from 1 June 1963.
• Philip Dunn - Philip Howard Milton Dunn was born in 1917. He was Standard Motor Co. staff number 473.