Combustion Ltd Brought Back Many Memories for Alan Gifford. Shares Some of Them.
Derby Evening Telegraph › October 31, 2011
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I JOINED ICL in 1950, initially as an industrial chemist after a short spell in a soap works and then in LMS laboratories in Calvert Street. I soon realised that I much preferred metallurgy and, despite continuing to train and be a racing cyclist with the Derby Mercury, eventually re-qualified as a metallurgist via Derby Technical College.
On my first day with the firm, in early 1950, I was told there was no analytical work needed so would I help in the Met Lab? I was shown how to mount and polish a metallurgical sample, which entailed holding the sample on a rotating polishing wheel for many minutes. After a few minutes, a funny little man, wearing a long rain coat came up to me and said: "What are you doing, sonny?" "Polishing a sample," was my response.See the full content of this document
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Combustion Ltd Brought Back Many Memories for Alan Gifford. Shares Some of Them.
"What is it from?" he said. "I don't know," I replied. "What are you going to do with it?" "I don't know," I said. "I only started here this morning."
"Hurmm," he responded. "Let me give you a bit ...See the full content of this document
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