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Description: | This handsome book records the presentation in 1930 of a Westminster Chimes Clock and a pair of Bronze figures to Edwin Lewis Coates by Huntley & Palmers for fifty years service. In 1930 Edwin Lewis Coates celebrated fifty years service at Huntley & Palmers in the Time Office (later to become the personnel department), where he became Personnel Manager. He had joined the Reading Biscuit Factory Fire Brigade in April 1894 as an engineer. By 1933 he was Hon. Secretary of the Brigade and was presented with a walking stick and pipe. He was an international bowler playing for the England team against the other home nations. He was also a founder member of Huntley & Palmers Recreation Club. Edwin Lewis's son Edwin Horace Coates (known as Bill) started working for his father in the Time Office in 1925 and then became Personal Manager on his father's retirement. Edwin Coates continued to be associated with factory after his retirement - he continued work as the honorary secretary of the factory Fire Brigade, as he was presented with gifts by them in 1933. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Publisher: | Huntley & Palmers | Rights holder: | Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) | Subjects: | commemoratives Coates, Edwin Lewis social history trade 50 years service presentation working life Mr Wrottesley, E.A. | Temporal: | start=1930-01-01; end=1930-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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