My Dad,David Reeves worked at Mullard from about 1959 to 1966 and according to my Mum worked in the lab.He Featured on the front of a Mullard brochure.He had a friend,Mark Ferris who also worked there.
My late father worked at Mitcham for 33 years, retiring in 1987. He worked in TEO and was involved with the image intenstifiers mentioned in the video. My mother worked there in the war. My cousin's family also worked at Mitcham. I visited there in 1979 for my Dad's 25th celebration. I remember Joan Cook and the name Jerry Thurmer is familiar. I really enjoyed the video.
I am involved with the British Vintage Wireless and Television Museum and we have many items from the 20s through to the 90s on display. Things with Valves in can nearly always be repaired.
I worked there in the early 70's on a student training program. Absolutely amazing place, so many people working on so many different products. I was based in the transmitting valve section and later in the FM radio module department. Some of the products I remember: Colour TV tube production, microwave cooker development, magnetic computer memories and fibre-optics. It was a great place to work, with a real buzz. It was all state of the art stuff then, topped of with an amazing canteen!
I was also there in the early 70s working in the Deflection and Display Lab for Alex Ciuciura. Maybe we met! I built an FM tuner using Mullard Modules. I still have it.
Dawn Began Nextdoor I started work there on 24/2/1972 was a great place to work and still in contact with my then supervisor Sandra Read and colleague Jean Bignell Loved the sports house they made a great cheese toastie
My mum and dad worked at Mullards Mitcham during the war, it’s good to see something about what they did. My mother was flown by Dakota from Croydon aerodrome to Eindhoven after the Germans were pushed out of Holland, to help start up production of cathode ray tubes. She met Mr Philipps and suggested that the Dutch workforce would agree to working slightly longer each week day if they didn’t have to work on Saturday morning. She also explained how this would slightly increase overall production and save money at the same time. Her idea was adopted by Phillips. My mother worked in a research section as she said Mullards were making cathode ray tubes for the desert rats? I believe her boss was called Mr. Pressel(?). Thank you for posting this.
My Aunt Rose worked at this factory....sometimes in the summer holidays i would come and meet her at the end of her shift and walk back...or sometimes cycle home through Beddington Park...i think my Grandad George may have worked there too but not entirely sure!! In the early 80's i used to do karate at the sports and social club there...it was a great club!!!
I was an apprentice at Copeland & Jenkins in the mid 50's, where we produced the mica insulators, that went into valves. I have always wondered as to why the position and sizes of the various shapes & holes, were tied up to such tight tolerance, when what passed though them seemed to have a lot of clearance I have ried to find out more of C & J works in leyton, but they seem to have disappeared without trace even though some 800 people were employed there at one time.
This film was created by people who worked at Mitcham and their credits are shown at the end of the film. Thanks to the British Vintage Wireless Society who did some work to improve the quality of the video and sound as well as some minor editing. My first Job after my education was at the Central Applications Laboratory which was located in B Building at the Mullard Radio Valve Company in Mitcham (actually Hackbridge). Later this became know as Philips Mitcham.
Copied from Nextdoor. Jack Short. My late uncle Jack Short joined Mullards in the later 1930's he hated it and on his first day he went to lunch not intending to go back but he had left behind a new umbrella which was 19th birthday present from his uncle Jack which a had gold band with his name on it. So he return for the afternoon shift and was shown over a bridge to another building by a lady and this which suited him better that lady was Betty who he married after the war. He was called up and was POW on the railway of death in Burma and I was named after him in 1944. On his return he went back to Mullards became chief cashier until his retirement but continued to be involved with the retirees.
Do you know the address of where the Mullard Factory was located in Whyteleafe, Surrey, UK. The reason I ask is that when I left school in 1979, I became an apprentice at Mullard, and was offered the chance to work at the Whyteleafe factory, but choose the Mitcham site as I did not know where Whyteleafe was. As fate would have it, I now live in Whyteleafe, but have been unable to find any local people who know where the factory was located.
I worked in what was called CAL in B Building from September 1968 to July 1974 and then again some years later in the Advanced Projects Group on the 3rd floor of A building
@@richardstow1631 Hi Richard, thanks for getting back to me. That is very sad, I worked with him at Mitcham for a number of years, a really nice guy, I had great respect for him.
Hi Geoff!! It's Jim Harris here, we worked on the Energy Management Scheme at Mullards, me just out of Uni on my first job. I learned a lot from you I have to say. Be good to catch up!
Hi Geoff!! It's Jim Harris here, we worked on the Energy Management Scheme at Mullards, me just out of Uni on my first job. I learned a lot from you I have to say. Be good to catch up!@@geoffcarter557
@@chickenduckquack Hi Jim, great to hear from you after all these years. Thanks for your kind comment. A catch up would be great, though as I live near Melbourne it might have to wait a while. I'd be happy to connect by email, WhatsApp, etc. What would suit you? Cheers for now Geoff
I managed 25 years with Philips Croydon, Mitcham and finally Redhill. I then got the offer of voluntary redundancy. Philips were known for offering favourable redundancy terms - much better than the state minimum!
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My Dad,David Reeves worked at Mullard from about 1959 to 1966 and according to my Mum worked in the lab.He Featured on the front of a Mullard brochure.He had a friend,Mark Ferris who also worked there.
My late father worked at Mitcham for 33 years, retiring in 1987. He worked in TEO and was involved with the image intenstifiers mentioned in the video. My mother worked there in the war. My cousin's family also worked at Mitcham. I visited there in 1979 for my Dad's 25th celebration. I remember Joan Cook and the name Jerry Thurmer is familiar. I really enjoyed the video.
I worked there in the Applications lab (B building) from September 1968 until end July 1974. Our paths may have crossed.
Valves have never totally gone away.High end stereo systems are using them and us amateur radio operators love them!
I am involved with the British Vintage Wireless and Television Museum and we have many items from the 20s through to the 90s on display. Things with Valves in can nearly always be repaired.
I worked there in the early 70's on a student training program. Absolutely amazing place, so many people working on so many different products. I was based in the transmitting valve section and later in the FM radio module department.
Some of the products I remember: Colour TV tube production, microwave cooker development, magnetic computer memories and fibre-optics.
It was a great place to work, with a real buzz. It was all state of the art stuff then, topped of with an amazing canteen!
I was also there in the early 70s working in the Deflection and Display Lab for Alex Ciuciura. Maybe we met! I built an FM tuner using Mullard Modules. I still have it.
My dad worked there for 25+years.I started there as an apprentice toolmaker in 1956 at just 15 years old
Dawn Began Nextdoor
I started work there on 24/2/1972 was a great place to work and still in contact with my then supervisor Sandra Read and colleague Jean Bignell
Loved the sports house they made a great cheese toastie
I used to go to all places in the factory as a maintenance technician and I never saw those plane drawings!
I never saw the planes all the time I worked there.
My mum and dad worked at Mullards Mitcham during the war, it’s good to see something about what they did.
My mother was flown by Dakota from Croydon aerodrome to Eindhoven after the Germans were pushed out of Holland, to help start up production of cathode ray tubes. She met Mr Philipps and suggested that the Dutch workforce would agree to working slightly longer each week day if they didn’t have to work on Saturday morning. She also explained how this would slightly increase overall production and save money at the same time. Her idea was adopted by Phillips.
My mother worked in a research section as she said Mullards were making cathode ray tubes for the desert rats? I believe her boss was called Mr. Pressel(?).
Thank you for posting this.
Jo Ashby Nextdoor
I moved from mullards 7 years ago, I lived there from 1998 & my sister still lives there, mum & dad also lived there
I really enjoyed this. I worked in the application laboratory 1984-1990.
I was working at Philips Croydon while you were in MAL.
My Aunt Rose worked at this factory....sometimes in the summer holidays i would come and meet her at the end of her shift and walk back...or sometimes cycle home through Beddington Park...i think my Grandad George may have worked there too but not entirely sure!! In the early 80's i used to do karate at the sports and social club there...it was a great club!!!
I worked there twice. Once for CAL in the late 60s and early 70s and then again in the 90s
I was an apprentice at Copeland & Jenkins in the mid 50's, where we produced the mica insulators, that went into valves. I have always wondered as to why the position and sizes of the various shapes & holes, were tied up to such tight tolerance, when what passed though them seemed to have a lot of clearance I have ried to find out more of C & J works in leyton, but they seem to have disappeared without trace even though some 800 people were employed there at one time.
My grandad Arthur Mitchell (Mitch) retired from Mullards in 1976 aged 72! Not sure how old he was when he started.
This film was created by people who worked at Mitcham and their credits are shown at the end of the film. Thanks to the British Vintage Wireless Society who did some work to improve the quality of the video and sound as well as some minor editing.
My first Job after my education was at the Central Applications Laboratory which was located in B Building at the Mullard Radio Valve Company in Mitcham (actually Hackbridge). Later this became know as Philips Mitcham.
Copied from Nextdoor. Jack Short.
My late uncle Jack Short joined Mullards in the later 1930's he hated it and on his first day he went to lunch not intending to go back but he had left behind a new umbrella which was 19th birthday present from his uncle Jack which a had gold band with his name on it. So he return for the afternoon shift and was shown over a bridge to another building by a lady and this which suited him better that lady was Betty who he married after the war. He was called up and was POW on the railway of death in Burma and I was named after him in 1944. On his return he went back to Mullards became chief cashier until his retirement but continued to be involved with the retirees.
Do you know the address of where the Mullard Factory was located in Whyteleafe, Surrey, UK.
The reason I ask is that when I left school in 1979, I became an apprentice at Mullard, and was offered the chance to work at the Whyteleafe factory, but choose the Mitcham site as I did not know where Whyteleafe was.
As fate would have it, I now live in Whyteleafe, but have been unable to find any local people who know where the factory was located.
I will find out and let you know. They are probably listed in one of my old Philips documents.
Hi... Thanks for posting this really interesting video. .... May I ask when you worked at Mullard's ?
I worked in what was called CAL in B Building from September 1968 to July 1974 and then again some years later in the Advanced Projects Group on the 3rd floor of A building
Hi - Anyone in contact with Steve Guttman? He is credited with suggesting making this film?
Hi. I'm sorry to say that according to my records Steve Guttman died in 2015
@@richardstow1631 Hi Richard, thanks for getting back to me. That is very sad, I worked with him at Mitcham for a number of years, a really nice guy, I had great respect for him.
Hi Geoff!! It's Jim Harris here, we worked on the Energy Management Scheme at Mullards, me just out of Uni on my first job. I learned a lot from you I have to say. Be good to catch up!
Hi Geoff!! It's Jim Harris here, we worked on the Energy Management Scheme at Mullards, me just out of Uni on my first job. I learned a lot from you I have to say. Be good to catch up!@@geoffcarter557
@@chickenduckquack Hi Jim, great to hear from you after all these years. Thanks for your kind comment. A catch up would be great, though as I live near Melbourne it might have to wait a while. I'd be happy to connect by email, WhatsApp, etc. What would suit you?
Cheers for now
Geoff
Now to celebrate 25 years a company says good job, raises your health insurance snd fires you 1 month later.
I managed 25 years with Philips Croydon, Mitcham and finally Redhill. I then got the offer of voluntary redundancy. Philips were known for offering favourable redundancy terms - much better than the state minimum!
All the evidence suggests it was called "Mullard". So why do people stick an 's' on the end? I worked at Mullard Mitcham for a year in 1989.