Automotive Products, Leamington

Automotive Products, Leamington

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6 March 2018 at 12:12 #18868
Glyn Davies
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6 March 2018 at 12:12 #344676
Glyn Davies
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I had a thorough workshop tidy-up recently and came across this bench vice. I gave it a bit of a clean and took a photo. It was made from solid chunks of steel in the apprentice workshop at Automotive Products at Leamington, where I spent some time at the start of my engineering career back in the seventies. Just wondered if there was any one else on here worked there?

The apprentice workshop was one of the best equipped I've ever seen and is a sad loss.
6 March 2018 at 13:08 #344678
not done it yet
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Closest I worked, to Leamington, was Southam.

A question might be why have you have, apparently, not used it for the last few decades?
6 March 2018 at 13:40 #344685
Glyn Davies
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I haven't used it because I just have too many vices…
6 March 2018 at 15:48 #344692
Neil Wyatt
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Nothing wrong with a bit of add-vice
6 March 2018 at 16:38 #344704
colin brannigan
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I went there once to check parts we made for them, they were AP Lockheed then, roof of the stores leaked so bad it had three or four inches of standing water on the floor, must have been 81/82 ish .

Colin
10 March 2018 at 09:25 #345303
thaiguzzi
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Posted by Otley on 06/03/2018 12:12:17:

I had a thorough workshop tidy-up recently and came across this bench vice. I gave it a bit of a clean and took a photo. It was made from solid chunks of steel in the apprentice workshop at Automotive Products at Leamington, where I spent some time at the start of my engineering career back in the seventies. Just wondered if there was any one else on here worked there?

The apprentice workshop was one of the best equipped I've ever seen and is a sad loss.

That is really nice!
10 March 2018 at 12:09 #345327
OuBallie
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Otley,

At least yours should end up like this on Earth!

Geoff – Must have taken quite a bit of welly to achieve this!
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