Clillieroc Advertiser and-Times, Friday, October 18, 1968 9 eo h“ prts booking at local industry


city a t the front and ext.,-, space in a well behind tv, r e a r ^ a t . -n ie h e a f a T g ^ ^


car can be heated when the engine is switched off hv means of an auxiliary heater


so arranged that the


the front and a double-jointed rear axle which gives good road holding. Both 2 aiui T


Suspension is by struts ji,


Tile 411 L model gives •* luxurj’ choice.


an™1? are made' '*


The standard model however, lavishly trimmed and equipped. Front seats have full adjustment incHiti ing back rake and even height. Wings are bolted on for ease of replacement.


FIAT


the lowest priced—and the car which has been longest in


Fiat can boast of havme


tailed changes in its life and now, while the basic model is retained, there is a luxuri- one with an impressive array of exterior fittings and in­ terior trim.


production—in the Fiat 500 There have been many de


includes a fuel gauge. The floor is carpeted and the


The instrument pane! now


lower seast incorporate fullv adjustable backrests. The 850 Fiat Coupe is, how­


ever, the newest in the range of a score of models currently available here.


of the existing 843 cc engine it develops the high blip of 52 and many mechanical changes have been made to the unit. I t is distinguished in the frontal view by twin headlamps. The floor is car­ peted and a steering lock is standard.


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General manager Mr. Terenoe Hoyland with some of the firm's products.


Story: John Honeywell Pictures: Roy Chatburn


L I G H T W E I G H T P A C K I N G K E E P S P R I C E S D O W N


Supplying many of the -rgest companies in the


country with packaging for their products, a Billington firm could soon be one of Britain’s largest manufac­ turers of expanded polysty­


was established exactly a year ago. In that short time it has already grown rapidly, and produces a wide range of packaging, and other products from tiffs relatively new material. Like many new firms in the


rene. Hie llrm, Lanapak Ltd.,


in the development of pack­ aging,


and so other countries are a long way behind the Germans


among the users of packages slowed the acceptance of this new material, and for many years, expanded polystyrene has been used for decorations and plant pots. " Nobody seems to have


But even so, conservatism


ported in packs made by Lanapak is wide.


The range of goods trails


packages for such widely different items as wine bottles magnets, cheeses, beer pumps electrical components, fruit and fish, crockery and many others,


The photograph s h 0 w s


Clitheroe area, Lanapak have taken former cotton mill pre­ mises—in this case, the Judge Walmsley Mill—and so there is ample space for future development and expansion. And it is expansion which


three patents we will be among the six largest consu­ mers of polystyrene in this


tile company is aiming for. Mr. Terence Hoyland, the general manager, said at the moment, he was negotiating with a German firm for three patent rights. “ If we get any one of these


country,” he said. Expanded polystyrene was


developed and patented 16 years ago, by a German che­ mical company. The patent rights expired only last year,


panded polystyrene manufac­ tured is simply in blocks or sheets and is used in building, for insulation.


taken much interest, until two years ago. in the physical properties of the material, and to develop it properly,” said Mr. Hoyland. Even now, much of the ex­


ded polystyrene moulding, we can beat better quality card­ board for price and with less visk of breakage,” said Mr. Hoyland. "Wc are even negotiating


with one insurance company to give free insurance cover on anything packed in our product,” he added.


Is cheaper and safer than many packaging methods used today. It is extremely light, and absorbs shock, pro­ tecting delicate electrical components packed in it. “Given quantity in expan­


Yet expanded polystyrene Quality


our reporter a pack which the firm has r e c e n t ly developed for a hand tool. When it is put into produc­ tion, it will cut the retail cost of the tool, which at present is packed in a metal box, by £1.


Mr. Hoyland also showed


made by the firm are wig stands. Shaped like women’s heads, they have been in great demand, and an export order has been received from ns far away as Singapore. But expanded polystyrene


has even more uses. All the items already mentioned are


packages, the firm makes wall decorations, a swimming aid. ceiling tiles, coving, advertis­ ing gimmicks and picnic boxes, all made from this light, inexpensive material. One rather unusual item


to such large, nationwide firms as Mullard (Blackburn and Simonstone), A.E.I., I.C.I., and Joseph Lucas. In addition to the various


Lanapak supply packages Seventeen-year-old Elaine Price, of Billington Gardens, Billington, removes a moulding from the maohlne.


materials can be used for the linings of crash helmets, and even as the frame for a com­ fortable, contemporary-design chair. These chairs are not only


R e a d e r s r e l a t e t h e i r G r e a t W a r m e m o r i e s Probably one of the first


Sincc we began this series about the Great War,


Clitheroe people to hear the war had ended was Mr. Arthur Hanson, now the Borough Librarian, who was working at Mar­ coni House, London, at


as soon as the news was flashed through. He remem­ bers much of the rejoicing •that took place in London when many people let their hair down and more beer than usual was consumed. Only just out of his teens,


ihc time. A radio officer, he heard


he remembers quite vividly seeing many people who were openly crying in the streets, some for joy, others In grief. Mr. Hanson went to sea at


we have received many letters from veterans telling of their experiences. We’d like to hear more, in particular memories of the Armistice of November 11, 1918. Wc are planning our own special tribute to the survivors, and will be entertaining a number of them on an after­ noon out. They will be selected on the basis of the letters we receive.


pleasant time when his ship was torpedoed.


to being sunk was when an enemy sub lurked around the convoy far a day and sank four ships” he said.


“But the closest we came


the age of 17 with the Mar­ coni Company, who "rented” him out to the Services dur­ ing the war. On his way out to Egypt on one occasion he remembers having an un-


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BREEZE BLOCKS


PAVINGS AND PATH EDGINGS


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Concrete Fuel Bunkers from £6-18-6


GARDEN TUBS Coloured Walling Bricks


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HOUSE CLEANING


CARPETS and SUITES CLEANED


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Caterer to the Musical Profession.


E. J. APPLETON EXPERT


AND REPAIRING AND SALES


PIANO TUNING


21 WOODLANDS RISE, HAWORTH. KEIGHLEY


Tel,. Haworth 3519


24-hour Telephone Service. Dstance no object.


NOW OPEN PETER FIELD


16, Castlegatc, Clitheroe Tel: 4246 (daytime)


Tel: Chatburn 462 (evenings)


Castlegatc Antiques in Clitheroe


. Pottery, Figures. Guns, Swords,-Oak & Mahogany Furniture,; Oil Paintings, Water Colours, Prints, . Silver, Pewter and Brass


Anything Old and Interesting


RE8TON. Telephone 78309 (Open Saturdays)


close to us to release Its torpedo. I t was obvious that it had tried for us as we were the biggest ship left, but it


"We saw the sub rise too


must have tunned too wide a circle and came up too close.


room and sank within a min­ ute”.


D. HIGHLAND GENERAL CARRIER LIGHT REMOVALS


1 STAMFORD PLACE CLITHEROE Tel. 3300—3907


ANT IQUE S WANTED FOR CASH


The Antique Shop Barrow, near Whalley. Tel: Whalley 3511.


pedo which skimmed past our bow and hit another Ship in the convoy. I will never forget that sight. The ship was carrying iron ore. “I t was hit in the engine


Instead It released its tor­


Great War we have told in our past two issues have pro­ duced a great deal of inter­ est. Many veterans have written to us of their experi­ ences.


The stories about the


Thirlmere Drive, Morecambe, tells Us that ho too is one of the survivors of the ciitheroe and District H. Co., 4th Bat­ talion, East Lancs Regiment and the 42nd. East Lancs.


Mr. John C. Webster, of


Machine Gun Corps in Feb­ ruary 1916.


ton'Gardens, Biilington, who is now 72, joined the Ter­ ritorials at Blackburn on Sep­ tember 2,1914, and he too was in Egypt and Gallipoli.


Mr. Stanley Ellis, of Bllling-


of June when we lost most of the lads killed and woun­ ded. I t was Hell that day.”


“I well remember the 4th


evacuated from Gallipoli with fever, and returned to Eng­ land via Malta. He later served with the 11th Bat- tallion of the East Lancashire Regiment in France, and was home for the Armistice. I t was only about 15 years


In October- 1914, he was


dead) and I enlisted in March 1914 and were in camp when the war broke out, being sent back along with the rest of the company, first to Clitheroe, then Black- bum and Bury.


Division. "My brother (Bert, now


Terriers could not then be sent abroad and that when asked to volunteer for ser­ vice abroad 80 per cent of the Division did so." Mr. Webster’s war service


‘T should mention that


took him to Egypt, Gallipoli, Prance and Belgium, where he was stationed at the time of the Armistice. He was transferred to the


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VOLUNTEERS PLEASE! Once more, the British


ago that Mr. George Marsh, of Russell Place, Great Har­ wood, discovered that he still has two pieces of shrapnel in his head, “souvenirs’’ of the Great War.


ing circles, Mr. Marsh—he is signed himself 1957' Fte. George Marsh, 13 Platoon, 1/4 East Lancs T.F, in his letter—had a spill on his bicycle and his head was X-rayed.


Well-known in local cricket­ Hospital


injured again and once more •returned to hospital in Eng­ land. In November 1917 he was


Turkish bomb on August 11, 1915, and was sent home to hospital, but was hack in France with the Lancs. Fusil­ iers on the Somme in June, 1916, By September, he had been


He had been wounded by a


sent to Greece, and returned to France in August of the following year where he re­ mained until the cease-fire, “We knew at 3 0 a.m. that


Legion is launching its an­ nual Poppy Appeal for funds to sustain its work of welfare and benevolence amongst disabled and needy ex-service men, women and their depen­


of voluntary collectors and I would like to ask your read­ ers to offer their services in this capacity not only on Poppy Day, Saturday, Novem­ ber 9, but also from House-to- House any time during Re­ membrance Week, November 4.


dants. The appeal Is In great need


avail themselves of the oppor­ tunity to contribute to effec­ tive local government through the “Letters” facility.


superficially, the moving uni­ versal picture of human ac­ tivity, I see much in many sphere- calling for urgent amendment and adjustment to meet modern demands. With Mr. Musson I am at


future. Scouring, more or less


My best wishes for your


the cease-fire was at 11 a.m„ but we had over 130 killed that morning. Afterwards, we marched all the way into Germany to Bonn.” Mr. Marsh also sent us a


among many other things, makes possible the provision of four convalescent and five country homes; m o n th ly allowances to more than 5,000 permanency incapacita­ ted ex-Servicemen and to some 4 000 widows: sheltered employment for 1,500 disabled ex-Servicemen and the vast volume of aid undertaken by more than 4,500 voluntary local service committees in ameliorating distress by the provision of food, clothing, bedding, coal, rent and tools etc. This work can only be sus­


teers can offer, they may be certain that it will be most usefully employed and app­ reciated. The Poppy Appeal income,


However much time volun­


tern of many others, being wounded receiving hospital treatment, then being sent back to fight again. He tells us that he arrived


now aged 74, of Seedall Avenue, Clitheroe, recalls that he arrived home in Clith­ eroe after demob on Monday, April 28, 1919. His story follows the pat­


photograph of “the lads of our tent”, taken just before •they left Egypt far Gallipoli and made up of Clitheroe and Chatburn men, but it was not possible for us to repro- due it satisfactorily. Mr. Ernest F. Nightingale,


F O R


L e t t e r s t o t h e E d i t o r I hope your readers will


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Her friends, made of much sterner stuff,


T E L E PH O N E


Laughed her- requests to scam.


‘There’s no-one there, up in the sky!”


Said ‘they, “It’s all pure ‘com’ ” "There’ll be no puppy-dog for you


CLITHEROE 2323


When your next birthday dawns.”


Her parents watched, with heavy heart,


charming place to live and work in than Clitheroe and Ribblesdale, with its diverse and happy social life? H a ro ld R, Broughton, Pimlico Road. Clitheroe.


Speed limit


tained by the efforts of a sufficiently large force of col­ lectors. and I hope that many of your readers will, by volunteering their helo. make practical recognition of the debt owed to those who. in two world wars and other conflicts, paid so great a price in preserving the free society in which we have the good fortune to live today. Offers of help may be sent


Hayhurst Street, Clitherce.


land for treatment, then off once more to war, this time to Salonica and the Middle East.


Packed


•the summer sunshine, Mr. William Edwardson, of East- moor Drive, Clitheroe, seized •the opportunity to put in writing an account of his Great War experiences. I t runs to some 50 pages,


While making the most of


and although it is packed with interest, we obviously haven't .sufficien t space avail­


. he had been'to leave a good home.


: ships .on which: he- .was' ser­ ving spotted a German-mine­ layer at work o n -a trade' route. It was soon sent to the bottom. I t was on eventful life, but


! He recalls 'how, soon- after •the war Was declared,' the


Royal Marines Light Infantry in 1912 having run away from home, for the sake of adven­ ture, •And it wasn't-.long before he-was thinking'what- a fool


able to reproduce it all here. Miv Edwardson joined the


ships, mud, water and cold, I was ‘mercifully’ gassed dur­ ing a mortar gas attack on the night of June 27, 1917, and was taken to hospital once again at Boulogne." Back once again to Eng­


at Marseilles from the Sinai Desert on Sunday, March 4th. 1917, and sent to the front line on the Somme. “After unbelievable hard­


Changing


times G r a t e f u l for your


generous allocation of space hitherto for my let­ ters, I now beg a little more for yet another one in which the Advertiser and Times itself is intimately


proprietorial and editorial combination for the striking transformation th e y , con­ jointly, have wrought in our ever welcome local weekly newspaper. I t is unmistakeably evi­


concerned. I t is to congratulate the


dence that you are indeed prepared to adapt yourself to the changed and still chang­ ing times which call for con­ stant review. May deserved s u c c e s s


attend your venture. I t will, if it maintains its independent outlook and steers clear of any sort of prejudice. Nice to note that the


•contibuted by “Naturalist” and "Rambler,” always so very well presented informa-- and absorbingly interesting, tive and absorbingly interest­ ing.


to single out any particular contributor .for adulation, I must nevertheless say that I appreciate the retention of such choice features as those


change has been effected while retaining its many appealing “special”- features. While it may be invidious


to me. E. Pennv. Organiser, 79


one with his suggestion to help to ameliorate the dis­ tressing state of affairs in Cumberland through unem­ ployment, by bringing to heir notice by judicious advertise­ ment the opportunities there seem to be at present in Clitheroe and district. Could there be a more


They were quite poor, you see!


polystyrene powder is pre­ expanded with steam. By varying the length of time of this pre-expansion, differing densities can be produced. These higher d e n s i ty


made of comparatively low- density material. Before being moulded, the


manufactured by F o s te r , Yates and Thom, a Blackburn firm, with which Lanapak work In close co-operation, developing the machines.


Bigger


as a change from the sea, he volunteered for the Naval Brigade, which took him to the Dardanelles where there was bitter fighting. Towards the end of the


light, but immensely strong, and Lanapak have already received many enquiries for them. The machines which do the


during one year has taken a great deal of work, and Mr. Hoyland himself has travelled about 30,000 miles, both in this country, and In Germany.


To build up a large trade


the bigger firms, with a big turnover in the packaging field.


“We have been going for


actual moulding of the poly­ styrene also use steam, which further expands the granules and forces them together. The completed item is then


war. he was in La Rochelle, France, on a secret mission.


cooled by water, and dried before being packed. The moulding machines are


a long time to convert to ex­ panded polystyrene for pack­ aging. When you get a mass production unit on to any kind of packaging, it must be available all the time.


“These people have taken “We are in a position to


keep a buffer stock here, and we deliver from stock to cus­ tomers’ requirements.” Tomato boxes are one Item


which met with a certain amount of sales resistance when Lanapak first started producing them, .


Island grower bought them, but found that when he took his produce to Covcnt Gar­ den, buyers said the trays were “too clinical”.


Eventually, a large Channel


Ughtness, cheapness a n d strength, they axe gradually becoming more accepted.


Yet now, because of their


be able to use at least half a million expanded polysty­ rene pallets a year.


start manufacturing pallets. One shipping firm alone will


Lanapak is now hoping to


H e re again, they are cheaper, and lighter than


wood, and can carry a one-ton load. The growth of the firm has


Mr. Hoyland said it was hoped to go into two shift working hi the near future increasing the present work­ force of 11.


been so great, and the first year’s work so successful, that


As good as new Dress Agency


50 PARSON LANE CLITHEROE Telephone 2322


We invite you to call and sec our stock of


COATS, SUITS and COCKTAIL WEAR


— No obligation to buy—


A puppy-dog would cost too much,


To tend it properly!


So Susan didn’t pup .


In any case, she’s much too young


Such presents could not be . . . .


Her friends cried, “Told you


But Susan said, no whit abashed,


You should have heard them crow!


“ so!”No old man in the sky heard you.”


“He did! ‘No!’”


serve that your three main artioles in your first “Whalley” full page all dealt with traffic problems


I was interested to ob­ More


the speed limit, the police should enforce it by the various means open to them —radar is not their only aid, nor would cautionary notices, of which there Is none, be out of place. Taking into account the


Council, it is difficult to see any reason why the proposal should not be recommended by the Highways Committee at their next meeting and be ratified by the Council. Certainly it would be a


fac.t that when discussing a lower speed limit ail reported members of the Parish Coun­ cil recognised the need for it, although differing on its practicability. I consider that whatever


of the village. This is surely significant. Even more significant is the


warning Driving through Clithe­


roe earlier this week, I was amazed to find one of the town’s busiest road junc­ tions—Duck Street, Lower- gale, Wellgate and Shaw- bridge—being ripped up by large machines.


from one end of Clitheroe to another.


wishes of the village for a lower and enforced speed limit, together with the re­ corded views of the Parish


order to make the diversions, Wetlgate was closed to through traffic, and King Lane, a one-way street, was used to take traffic from


I later discovered that in


realistic approach to a press­ ing problem. J. Stuart Mills, Stocks Hill, Whaliey.


‘Except


ye be ; . Young Susan was a trusting child


Who prayed ‘most cvery night.


When fucked up warm and tight.


With trusting moist-brown eye.


One day, she saw a puppy- dog


Became her nightly cry.


As naital-day drew nigh. “Oh | Send me, pleas puppy-dog”


rhem prayers rose from her truckle-bed,


She asked ‘Dear God’ to keep her safe


She asked Him to, her Mummy, bless . . . .


And Dad . . . And brother Mike!


works were likely to take about four days, and that police and traffic wardens were needed to direct the traffic.


I also found that the road


agree that the junction needed re-surfacing—in times of wet weather it has been a treacherous skid pan, and I am surprised that there have been no serious accidents there.


would be the first to


an operation of this nature, quite a. large,one. for Clith- , eroe, the public'was given • absolutely no warning,


But I am amazed that in


"first, and i t - was only the patience-' of the police and traffic wardens which sorted out-the tangles. • Could,I ask that in future,'


. ;;Motorists ..found. the ..situa­ tion absolutely chaotic ot


in force, and I had to make a wide detour just to get


Extensive diversions were


, and answered FLUNA.


Castle Street down to Lower- gate—completely the oppo­ site direction to the normal flow of traffic.


the, Corporation, .the County . Oouricil', or whoever- else is respanstolei+igiyecisome,, 'ad- vande>,warning ^to 'the”,people. - of Clithetoe,' in arder-to-avoid : the chao£ wW(ffi'3fcflfcre;,;was earlief this' tySekT^ * ' • Vi i


^Motorist,-- Ohatbunn Road, Clitheroe.


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