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Designed & Saved from the Skip 1963 to 2008
End of a Craft Industry, circa 1980.
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 Editor :- myself PJC
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Cash's Times 1992:- Jacquard weaving had been a craft industry for over 100 years, with computerized systems that had come to an End.
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Latest Updates
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Cash's Lane - kingfield Rd Works.
Manager - Leslie Mallett.
Graphic Design - Me / Pam Dunham / Bernard Maher / Paul Taylor / Pete Allen R.I.P / Olivia Johnson / Ian Saville.
Drafting (Point Paper Designers) - Barbara Weightman / Pat Waugh / Bob Makins / DiStefano / Bill Foster / Kay Lewis / Ingrid / Jenny Taylor / Mary Arnott / Sandra Hayward etc,.
Graphic Designers - 1970s - Link.
1968-72.Progressive-Folk-Rock Band - DANDO SHAFT.
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Cash's Lane - Entrance
Illustration by Elisabeth Halstead. --- Approx Size10'x4'
Bayley Lane
2016 - Photos
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Share Acquisitions by Cash's - Laird B & Co Ltd,. & W H Grant & Co Ltd. - put into liquidation:- 29th Oct 1963.
Modernisation of J & J Cash Limited
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Big changes in the 70s - early 80s, Retirement, Death, Leaving, Finding new staff for Design, big turnover.
Ribbon production ceased. Name Tape Cards changed to paper tape controlling electric solenoid actuators on top of loom.
Next automating card cutting for Jacquard Broad Looms, this needed Drafts to be done on computers.
Cash's created their own software. with artwork being scanned in. All these innovations were under the control of Dr. John Lowe.
No more Hand Painted Drafts . . . Modern jacquard cards changed to EEPROM memory plugged into the Looms.
Staff levels:- 1963 under 1000. ribbon loss, nametape computerisation, staff now approx 600. Broad Looms more computerisation, staff now approx 300.
1984 - Latest Broad Looms & more up to date computer systems installed at new site in Torrington Ave, before the last of us moved.
24 hour shifts - Big changes to Badge production ( greater profitability by 1999 ). 1992 Two Macintosh IIfx PCs arrive, staff down to 162.
Management Buyout 1999 ( had links with Hong Kong ? ) - Joined forces with Hong Kong-based 'The Jointak Group'.
Sending them artwork for the production of woven labels, badges, lazer cut shapes, printed swing tickets etc,.
Ribbon production ceased. Name Tape Cards changed to paper tape controlling electric solenoid actuators on top of loom.
Next automating card cutting for Jacquard Broad Looms, this needed Drafts to be done on computers.
Cash's created their own software. with artwork being scanned in. All these innovations were under the control of Dr. John Lowe.
No more Hand Painted Drafts . . . Modern jacquard cards changed to EEPROM memory plugged into the Looms.
Staff levels:- 1963 under 1000. ribbon loss, nametape computerisation, staff now approx 600. Broad Looms more computerisation, staff now approx 300.
1984 - Latest Broad Looms & more up to date computer systems installed at new site in Torrington Ave, before the last of us moved.
24 hour shifts - Big changes to Badge production ( greater profitability by 1999 ). 1992 Two Macintosh IIfx PCs arrive, staff down to 162.
Management Buyout 1999 ( had links with Hong Kong ? ) - Joined forces with Hong Kong-based 'The Jointak Group'.
Sending them artwork for the production of woven labels, badges, lazer cut shapes, printed swing tickets etc,.
1966-67 - Dianne & Peter ( Nellie The Elephant )"Peter Theodore Campbell Julius Barker (Artist)" was the son of a "good" tea plantation owner in INDIA, who looked after his workers & local villagers .
His father was held for ransom by a group not local to the area. Peter spent 6 months in India to negotiate, with help from locals. On return took Dianne on holiday got Married & never returned to Cash's. ( That's another story ). Dianne had a thing about the song ' Nellie The Elephant ' She would hum it, we would join in gently, humming, then whistling, followed by singing it. It would start slow & subdued, . . . ending up in absolute chaos. . . We weren't supposed to have fun, but you could tell the Old chaps loved it. |
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