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Description: | The folder largely consists of souvenir menus for dinners held by Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Company (Great Britain) Limited. The majority of these menus date from the 1930s and provide a record of farewell dinners for Goodyear employees returning to America, or going to other Goodyear plants elsewhere in the world. Others document dinners held to celebrate the manufacture of the first Goodyear tyre in England, January 1928; to mark visits to England by high-ranking American officials. Some of the menus include photographs or cartoon illustrations of the person for whom the dinner was held, and some are signed. The menus also give details of the entertainment arranged which often included 'community singing' and music by the Goodyear band or Goodyear orchestra. The other menus dating from the 1930s are for the third and fourth annual dinners of the Goodyear 'Mercury Club' in 1938 and 1939, held at the Molineux Hotel, Wolverhampton. There is also a programme for a concert held at the Wolverhampton Hippodrome in aid of the 'Brinsworth' Home Variety Artistes' Benevolent Fund, 5 February 1933, at which the Mercury Musicians, a group made up of Goodyear employees, performed, and a poster advertising a non-stop concert held at the Theatre Royal in Bilston 26 March [1933] in aid of the Bilston Poor Chidrens' Boot Fund at which the Mercury Musicians performed, together with other artists.
Other souvenir menus are: menu for the Goodyear cup winners celebration dinner, Burlington House, Glasgow, 1955; menu for the dinner held to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Goodyear in Wolverhampton, 15 December 1952; menus for 'Annual Service Pin Dinners' for employees with over twenty-five years service, for 1954, 1964 and 1969; menu for a dinner to mark the retirement of F.E.J. (Jim) Hunt 30 December 1959, together with telegrams read of congratulations read out at the meal; and a menu for a luncheon organised by West Yorkshire Road Car Co. Ltd to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the company's association with Goodyear, held at Boroughbridge, 1 October 1982. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Archives | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Archives | Temporal: | 1928 - 1982 | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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