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Totectors - Survey 1994
A survey of Totectors factories in Station Road and Duck Street, in
1994 by Jim Osborne & Eric Fowell. Photographs by Derek Savory.
Acknowledgements to Mr Bob Coleman, Mrs Julie Bradshaw, and retired foreman Mr Jack Burgess.

clicking
Mr John Baker – Hand Clicker

operating a bank of machines
vulcanised dept
Mr Gerald Andrews – operating a bank of Vulcanising Machines
Mrs Watts & Mrs Rose Swyetti – Vulcanised Dept.
packing dept
automatic stitching
Shoe Room and Packing Department – Vulcanised dept.
Automatic upper stitching
closing
closing dept
Mrs Maureen Fuller – Closing Department Supervisor
Closing Department – in Horrell’s old factory
press
stitching
Mr Peter Peachy – Cutting inner soles on press
Bottom Stock Department
Closing Machine
lasting department
eyeletting
Lasting Department – boxes of steel toe caps behind the track
Mrs Heather Wheeler – Operating Eyeletting Machine
removing lasts
office
Mr Sioun Gant – Last Slipping – Vulcanising Dept.
Factory Production Office
repairs stitch marking packing
Mr Terry Prentice – cutting off
polyurethane sole at repair bench
Upper stitch-marking machine
Clicking Department
Mrs Sheila Corby packing shoes


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