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It is not intended to be nor does it constitute legal advice. This is public information provided by the official company register. Find company:. Empty cart. Free company watchdog service Enter your email:. You have at your disposal scanned copies of official documents submitted by the company at Companies House. His brother worked there too his name was Richard Ward and was the firms painter, Richard's wife worked in the packing dept her name was Irene.

Both Bill and Richard have passed away don't know about Irene though. After work used to go in the Grapes round the corner with Roy who worked on the plating plant and a girl I think was called Helga?. The Rolls had a brick garage in the yard between the packing department and the spanner shop. Don't remember anybody from either place. I heard Mr Gordon died shortly after I left. Dixie Wilson, Mr Gordon's daughter, worked across West Street in the 'fitted case' dept, his son Tommy, I heard, took over the company after his dad died.

I think there was a Tony Wilson, brother, and a brother in law, who hired me. Very good hand tools, I got a set for free! Never worked there but used Gordons gland pliers that were the best at the time, so much so that we called all gland pliers 'Gordons' in the same way that cleaners are all called 'Hoovers'.

Excellent tools. Asked my mum about Jim Beavers she says he will know my dad,did he ride a moterbike possibly with a side car?. Also she remembers someone called Marriot,please reply back with any info. Its nice to hear so many happy memories and stories about Gordon's Tools.

Gordon was my Grandfather who I, unfortunately, never had the chance to meet. I'll ask my father, Tom, to visit this thread - I'm sure it will make him smile. I was a big friend of Dixie Wilson in the 60's. I knew all the family well. They used to come to Filey all the time and I spent many a happy hour with them all. Dixie used to come and pick me up in the Rolls when she was able to have it and we would go for a drive laughing our heads off.

Mrs Wilson would go and pick up fish and chips in the Rolls with her hair in rollers and wearing a white mink coat. The morning after the lavish "do" we went for a drive round Dore - it was realy living. I myself came from a very humble background but it didn't matter to the Wilson's - they took people a face value. In a large string of tool sellers based in the South of England were devoting advertising space for Record planes near the front of their tool brochure with just a small sidenote below each Record plane offering the option for customers to buy Stanley USA equivalent planes.

They were selling the Stanley and Record planes at exactly the same price. At around this time there must have still been some sensitivity between the age long traditional use of wooden planes and the new emerging modern technologies. To address this sensitivity, Record once again put a very clever strategy into place in order to change users mindsets; they published a book called 'Planecraft - Hand Planing By Modern Methods'.

This book was basically a tutorial educating craftsmen how to use the new modern Record planes. The book started by introducing readers to the evolution of the plane from Roman times through to the 19th century wooden planes and then seemlessly through to the new evolutionary stage, the Record plane. It was brilliantly written, anyone who wasn't convinced who read this book must have surely been intrigued.

Their sensitivity on the shift from the traditional wooden hand plane to the new metal plane was addressed beautifully in this book in one simple but powerful sentence: "and though the machine plane is with us, the hand plane will never leave us".

By the Record plane and tool range was at its height. The release of the Record Tools catalogue no. Sadly a number of these 82 planes were only to have a short period in which they were made due in part to the dark times which lay ahead.

The 's saw World War II and with it came war time restrictions and shortages such as the rationing and shortages of petrol and steel, the country also saw a massive shortage in man power.

It must have also been the case that the quantity of tools produced during war time were greatly reduced.