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She's a Lady - Martin - 10-Oct-2006
Can anyone help with this enquiry?
quote:
Being an ex-Leyland Motors employee (37 years), I am trying to trace pictures of the calendar issued by the company for many years entitled the 'Leyland - She's a Lady'. Each year a rather beautiful lady was depicted and the slogan obviously implied that Leyland vehicles behaved like ladies. Are you aware of any websites that I can visit that will show me the full set of these terrific 'Ladies'?
Kind regards, Derek
- shuffy - 11-Oct-2006
sorry can't help, but I do remember the originals being framed on the wall down the staircase in North works. The main staircase in the offices I mean and very impressive they looked as well. has the vehicle museum no idea where they are?
- William R - 11-Oct-2006
I remember these pictures of the Ladies - we used to go up the stairs to the Board Room to discuss progress on the MOS Factory.
Where did they go? Possible to the Motor Museum in King Street or to Beulie Museum.
Where did the original Lancashire Steam Traction brass nameplate go? Possibly to the same place.
In the Executive Dining Room in Thurstan Road Canteen there used to be plaques on the wall depicting every make of Leyland Vehicle. To name a few - Tiger, Lion, Panther, Buffalo, Rhino, Terrier, and others - until the Atlantean came along, They could not find an Atlantean Figurehead anywhere. Where did these all go to?
Where did the stone model of Thurstan Road Canteen, which stood in Mr.Gilbert`s garden in Eccleston go to?
All questions without answers.
Unconnected with this. When I left the employ of Kymmene Paper in 1970, my nameplate from my office door was added to the Roll of Honour kept by the Joinery Dept. Every exManager`s plate and his credentials, degrees etc were on these plates, the site is now an ASDA store. I wonder where they are?????
- anacortesdamp - 12-Oct-2006
William:
As you probably know, the premises occupied by George Damp and Sons on Towngate (originally Water Street) were the site of the start of the Lancashire Steam Traction company.
In the early 1950's (I was about 10 or 12) we stripped out a room adjacent to the auto repair bay, where we used to charge up customers' car batteries. There was a set of shelves in one corner which were curved on one corner and had a raised edge. When cleaned off they turned out to be four pieces of the original wooden sign that hung over the gate to the "works". The sign had been cut into four pieces to make the shelves.
Since they had been cut into pieces, nobody thought they were of importance,
so they went on a bonfire.
Frank
- William R - 12-Oct-2006
Frank, I remember the shop very well, I believe the first steam lawn mower was made there. The nameplate I mention was on the door of the old Employment Office in North Works yard, right hand side next to No1 Shop.
I recall during the war, the coat of arms over North Works entrance was taken down so that the works would not be easily identified from the air! Wonder where that went to?
When I first started work as an apprentice on May 1st 1939, the man in charge of aprentices, Bert Elkington, took me outside to show me the Lancashire Steam Traction plate, and gave me a run-down on the history of Leylands, from the beginning. My father worked originally in the Experimental Dept on the top floor of the Thurstan Road Canteen, with Jack Fairclough, working on equipment for Parry Thomas and his racing car, so I suppose my association with Leylands goes back quite a way, he finished up in the Tool Room.
I rambled on again - sorry.
- brian - 13-Oct-2006
I remember seeing some of the leyland calendars in the Leyland vehicles museum.
Brian