Two things concerning my Alcad History site http://www.alcadhistory.org.uk/
I had this nice e-mail from India….
‘I am Sunil Trikha from India. I visited Alcad thrice in
1980s in connection with transfer of technology for Punjab Power Pack. I have
many pleasant memories.
I still remember my friends Mr. David Way, Mr. Cummins &
Mr Tony Gray. I learnt a lot from them.
During my first visit Alcad was at its peak with Carpentry
shop, component production shop & tool room. It is great to find that you are keeping
memories of ALCAD alive.
Wishing you best of health. SUNIL TRIKHA’
I well remember visiting India in the 1980s to resolve a
battery problem in a nuclear power station and visiting important customers
such as the railways. I found the people there friendly and helpful and it has
some good memories. I still have some mementos which live in my living room to
remind me of the time.
I have also been working on a document supplied to me by
Jane Asher who is the daughter of W.S.Thomson
who worked at ‘The Batteries’ at Hunt End and Union Street from 1938 to
1972. He produced a manuscript ‘‘Nickel-Cadmium vented pocket plate storage
batteries.’ for the publisher McGraw Hill
which was never published.
Jane has supplied me with the original manuscript which I am
scanning and using OCR (Optical character recognition) to convert to a Word
file and then to a PDF. I will have to recreate the graphs, etc, into a modern
format and I will then publish this as a downloadable pdf.
This is rather a specialist area and there will be only limited
interest, but I think that it is important that technical information of this
type should not be lost and will be available for future historians.
I plan to work on this over the winter when there is less to
do in the garden and at Forge Mill Needle Museum.
Tony Green