Off Topic Michelin bids for Fenners.

The French are after Fenners and it seems that the Fenners board recommends the deal.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/busines...-plans-12bn-takeover-british-engineer-fenner/

 

Is there anything of Fenners left?

 

About £1.2bn's worth according to Michelin!

 

Over 4000 employees worldwide apparently.

Just had a butcher's at their website and it's barely recognisable as the company I used to work for in the eighties

 

Obviously I meant in hull. Thought the factory had gone. I don't get up to east hull much anymore.

 

Michelin you say? At least the staff canteen meals should be good.

 

Not very healthy judging by the look of their Man.

 

Won't beat the sausage, beans and chips we used to get in the Fenners social club of a lunchtime. That , two pints and a game of snooker - change from a quid.

 

A bit rubbery. This thread is tyred.

 

same old tyred jokes, Dutch....

 

There HQ is near the bridge in the Humber Bridge Office Park. Marfleet factory still open according to their website.

 

Fenner Dunlop is still there on Marfleet Lane, where they (I) made the conveyor belts.

 

You sure?

 

The old rubber moulding factory got demolished years ago when they moved production to Wales on the back of a government grant. I got out before this happened and moved across the road to where they made the conveyor belts. I drove passed the FD building last month and it was very much stil there, although I don’t know if any work goes on there.

Though you could’ve said that when I was there in the 90s.

 

Yes they are still there my company deals with them regularly

 

I deal with engineering and dealt with Ken Bryant for years...he's gone now

 

Don’t know the name, I must’ve left in something like 97.

In saying that I can hardly remember anyone’s name from back then. The factory was full of people who supported other clubs and took the piss about me being a City fan. Of course as soon as we reached the PL I saw many of them there.

 

Only thing I remember about my timewas some old bloke called Bob, I think, he'd worked there for over 40 years and lived across road. It was his whole life. Made me shudder.
Anyway we decided to part company after a disagreement about starting times and working during the day...

 

It was the most amazing place I ever worked. When my shift made me work 12 hour (6-6) Saturdays, this 100% genuinely meant breakfast and reading the papers for a few hours, a kip, then watch the cricket all day on the adjacent sports field. There was never any work even considered.

As a youngster at the start of his working life I just went along with what the old blokes said was the done thing. As you say, the norm was many had been there for 25+ years.