[keith]

1970/80 were the years the firm I worked for at that time began doing there shipping and warehousing of course it had been renamed platt saco lowell and there machinery was going all over the world the late harry brindle was the chief shipping clerk trailer loads down to jacks motors at turner street blackburn the four warehouses some times jammed full beside the jacks transport platts own transport was used I remember there main driver big brian he must of got fed up sometimes running up and down to blackburn some of the export orders were massive full ship loads sometimes Liverpool was used a lot but I remember a full ship load going to a smaller port at kings lynn and the letter of credit failed and the whole lot went back to blackburn however it still was sold on again In the late seventies platts started to bring in the repco spinning machines from australia via containers into jacks motors for storage at first but it became a good seller so they were not in long alas came the eighties and then they were gone both platts and jacks motors