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Thread #13603   Message #3083979
Posted By: Jim Dixon
28-Jan-11 - 08:23 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Swan Necked Valve
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Swan Necked Valve
Google Books finds this notice in The Foundry Trade Journal, Volume 104 (West Bromwich, England: Institute of Cast Metals Engineers, 1958), page 500:
"Mr. Alex Russell, who has been secretary of Dundee and district branch of the Foundry Workers' Union for 13 years, is to resign his post as a protest because his national executive did not officially back a 'save the foundries' campaign in Dundee. A few weeks ago he organized a campaign in an attempt to keep open three foundries which the engineering firm of Urquhart Lindsay and Robertson Orchar, Limited, had announced were closing. Despite meetings, demonstrations and...."
The Institute of Cast Metals Engineers (the publisher of the above journal) has a web site: http://www.icme.org.uk/