The factory looks like a depressing dump. Far too little automation and too many men working. Men are smoking when working. Some have no respirators when spraying. A lot must have had chest complaints when older. Few wore gloves. They are spraying in open rooms as well.
No wonder the UK car industry went belly up and quite right as well. It saved lots of lives I am sure.
I started work at Canley straight from school in Aug 79 as a JWP(JUNIOR WORKS PERSONNEL)as a trainee trimmer, I trimmed seats for the Spitfire and TR7 models in an area of the factory what we called the Rocket Range until the plant closed in 1980 and was then transfered to the Jaguar plant at Browns Lane in Coventry.Triumph or the Standard as we called it was a great place to work,great bunch of lads.its all gone now,its a sainsburys store.
@Charlottie96 he was a truly great man!
lordleonuk 4 weeks ago
The factory looks like a depressing dump. Far too little automation and too many men working. Men are smoking when working. Some have no respirators when spraying. A lot must have had chest complaints when older. Few wore gloves. They are spraying in open rooms as well.
No wonder the UK car industry went belly up and quite right as well. It saved lots of lives I am sure.
NearAbbeyRoad 4 months ago
Most interesting! Standard had a factory at Madras, India, where CKDs of the Standard 10/Pennant/Companion and finally the Herald.
The factory then went into independent car production after 1970, but with not much success.
They had shut down following a legal dispute that dragged on until the place was finally auctioned off a few years ago and completely torn down!
'would be interesting if anyone had a footage of that factory.
firedup643 11 months ago
I started work at Canley straight from school in Aug 79 as a JWP(JUNIOR WORKS PERSONNEL)as a trainee trimmer, I trimmed seats for the Spitfire and TR7 models in an area of the factory what we called the Rocket Range until the plant closed in 1980 and was then transfered to the Jaguar plant at Browns Lane in Coventry.Triumph or the Standard as we called it was a great place to work,great bunch of lads.its all gone now,its a sainsburys store.
toptrimmer 1 year ago
I Think my Grandad, Sir John Black was manager of Standard Triumph for a while..
Charlottie96 1 year ago