EdmundH Posted June 24, 2016 Share Posted June 24, 2016 (edited) jgbvngfhvcnv Edited February 3, 2018 by EdmundH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broncolives Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 I believe my cousin worked there for many years but he sadly died a few years ago. Named terry Knightley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stpetre Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 Hi... Anyone here who worked at Snow&Co Machine Tool makers during the 1970s? I know the place closed down but I don't know exactly when... Was Snow & Company actually in the Wicker, or on one of the streets that ran off it, Stanley Street for example ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bessmeg Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 Think it closed down 1981/1982? I remember some kind of despite,? Think it closed down shortly afterwards? I was at the eitb training centre with two lads that worked there, yes it was off Stanley st, and Johnson st, just off the wicker, I end up working for lodestar engineering, which was very nearby, another great engineering amongest many others we have sadly lost! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stpetre Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 (edited) Think it closed down 1981/1982? I remember some kind of despite,? Think it closed down shortly afterwards? I was at the eitb training centre with two lads that worked there, yes it was off Stanley st, and Johnson st, just off the wicker, I end up working for lodestar engineering, which was very nearby, another great engineering amongest many others we have sadly lost! Yes 'Lodestar' forgot about them, and was E.I.T.B on Petre Street ? Edited June 29, 2016 by stpetre add Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kidorry Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 There were 2 Snows works,the old one on Stanley street and the new one on Walker street(I think that is the right name). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukdobby Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 Worked in Johannesburg in the mid 70s,they had 3 snow grinders,they did all the heavy grinding,the new fangled German machines couldn't cope with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bessmeg Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 Yes eitb was on Petre st the large building sadly gone, when we stopped caring about industry and training young people doing proper apprenticeships,( now we just training. Them "all" in law!), lodestar on Johnson st , the small side building is still there as a power coating firm now, the large side was pulled down to make way for the derick Dooley ring rd, somebody should make up a list of old ,"forgotten" Engineering firms , before they are wiped from memories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdmundH Posted July 1, 2016 Author Share Posted July 1, 2016 (edited) hghghghrghgv Edited February 3, 2018 by EdmundH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bessmeg Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 I think a bloke called chicko worked a planer there, he later worked at lodestar, I remember the new brick work in the old brickwork on one of the outside walls where a planer table shot off its slides and went thro the wall,!! I ended up working planer/millers at lodestar, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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