大象传媒

In common with many Coventry-born people of pre-war and WW2 period, my father and both grandfathers worked on munitions at former car production plants. One grandfather was Foreman of the Tool Room at the Nuffield Mechanisation, Gosford Street, Coventry, formerly the Hotchkis Works. My maternal grandfather worked at the Alvis car factory, as a Tool Maker, but he is interesting in that he served an engineering apprenticeship at Hornsby's in Grantham, Lincolnshire(firm made the first tanks for WW1)but in 1905, aged 23,he moved to Coventry where there were more opportunities and was employed at the Ordnance Works, Red Lane,where huge naval guns were produced. I would be interested in hearing from anyone whose relatives were similarly employed and who might have worked with or known my relatives.