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CAMPERDOWN TERRACE
EXMOUTH
DEVON
THE NOMBREX TEAM..
THE ORIGINAL OWNER OF NOMBREX WAS BELIEVED TO BE A MR SCARSDALE OR SIMILAR NAME
TOM PAWLEY FROM COLATON RALEIGH WAS THE RATHER ECCENTRIC BUT BRILLIANT CHIEF ENGINEER
MR JOYCE WAS THE GENERAL MANAGER WHO WAS PREVIOUSLY WITH SIFAM AT TORBAY.....SIFAM SUPPLIED SOME OF THE PANEL METERS FOR NOMBREX POWER SUPPLIES AND FREQUENCY METERS.
MY GOOD FRIEND DAVE JACQUES WORKED FOR NOMBREX FROM AUGUST 1969 UNTIL ITS MOVE TO NEWTON ABBOT IN JULY 1972 AS AN ELECTRONICS ENGINEER, CALIBRATING AND FAULT FINDING ON MOST OF THE RANGE .. HE HAS SUPPLIED MOST OF THE INFORMATION I HAVE, THERE IS LIKELY SOME MORE DETAILS TO COME BUT HE SAYS HIS BRAIN IS NOT WORKING AS WELL AS IT USED TO..PERSONALLY I THINK THE MEMORY PROBLEMS ARE DUE TO EXCESSIVE INTAKE OF PLJ CORDIAL...!! :-)
LYNN WEST FROM LYMPSTONE WAS A LONG TIME ASSEMBLY WORKER APPARENTLY THERE FROM DAY 1 UNTIL THE MOVE IN 1972..
OTHER ASSEMBLY WORKERS WERE FRANKIE (MCLEOD), AND A SUMMER JOB WORKER BEFORE UNI WAS CLARE PORTMAN NOW A FAMOUS AUTHOR/NOVELIST. CLAIRE MORAL
A MR MINOR WAS THE STORE MAN
STEVE LUGGER FROM EXMOUTH WAS A TRAINEE ENGINEER ALONG WITH
JIM (JIMBO) FROM BUDLEIGH SALTERTON JIM GOODING ??
ALL THE CASES WHICH RANGED FROM GREY TO DARK BLUE PAINT FINISH WERE CONVENIENTLY MADE NEXT DOOR AT A SHEET METAL FACTORY (the white building in the picture).THE QUALITY OF THE CASES APPARENTLY LEFT SOMETHING TO BE DESIRED WITH SEVERAL BATCHES BEING REJECTED BY THE DEMANDING GERMAN NORDMENDE COMPANY WHO HAD SEVERAL CUSTOMISED FRONT PANELS FITTED TO THE STANDARD RANGE SIG GENERATORS AND SOLD THEM AS PART OF THE NORDMENDE TEST EQUIPMENT RANGE ...
THE FACTORY HAD THEIR OWN PLASTIC MOULDING SECTION AND MADE ALL THEIR OWN SCALES AND KNOBS ON SITE, THE LINES ON THE POINTERS WERE ALL STUCK ON THE REVERSE SIDE OF THE SCALES BY HAND AND NOT ALWAYS SYMETRICALLY... THE PLASTICS SECTION WAS ALSO USED TO PRODUCE THE SLIDE RULES AND WERE THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NOMBREX FORD POP PLASTIC FRONT END..
WHEN NOMBREX HAD A REBIRTH TO NOMBREX 1969 IN 1969....A MR NEWMAN FROM TORQUAY WAS AT THE HELM..HE WAS THE ARCHITECT OF THE MOVE TO AN INDUSTRIAL ESTATE NEAR DECOY IN NEWTON ABBOT IN 1972 .. I HAVE NO DETAILS OF WHAT HAPPENED TO NOMBREX IN NEWTON ABBOT.. THEY SEEMED TO DISAPPEAR VERY QUICKLY WITH NO ADVERTISING APPEARING WITH THEIR NEW ADDRESS THAT I HAVE SEEN..