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Description: | 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. | 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 | Rights holder: | Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) | Subjects: | Coates, Mr Edwin Lewis social history trade event working life fire services Annual dinner and presentation | Temporal: | start=1933-03-21; end=1933-03-21; | 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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