Works Outing Day, 1930s

On Thursday, November 12, Alan Warren wrote:

Attached pic is outside Salmson Cars & Aero Engines in Raynes Park on Works Outing Day in 1930’s with Dennis Warren 4th from left in back row and my Mum’s only brother, George in second from front row (standing out in his double breasted light grey suit). Poor George was serving aboard a Royal Navy MTB off Malta when he died on 16 July 1943. He was 21 years old.

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On Friday, November 13, Hamilton Du Lieu wrote

Hey, Great picture of the British Salmson mob, which enterprise was directly opposite my old grammar school, Raynes Park County, on what was called The Spur, (where the Kingston By Pass joined the old London Road) and still there in the late forties and early fifties, when I was there.

And if you squinch your eyes a bit, you can maybe see Thomas Samuel, ciggy drooping, in the back row, third from the right, and Thomas Horace, standing, front and centre, with a certain swagger.

I would like to think so, and sometimes that’s what becomes ‘ history’.