WORKING AT ASSOCIATED MOTOR CYCLES - Key Persons
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- Press Relations Officer Mike Marriott.Read Full Article 'a Matchless Quality' on the Links Page. ( Courtesy Motor Cyclist Illustrated - March 1959 )
Bill Cakebread has another tale about Tony Denniss, this time with his boss being the naughty boy.
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- Chairman of Manganese Bronze Holdings PLC
During receivership, a takeover proposal was put forward by Manganese Bronze Holdings PLC, under the chairmanship of Dennis Poore (British entrepreneur, financier and sometime racing driver).
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- Director
- Directors
- Progress - Sub Contract Manager
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- Company Secretary / Man. Dir. ( 1954 - 60 )
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- Secretary ( to Jock West )
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- Joint Managing Director, Jack Kelleher ), Who Had Just Completed His 3 - Years in the Factory As a Trainee, Was Given the Job to Organise This New Venture
- Sales Manager ( under Jock West )
John Kelleher (son of joint managing director, Jack Kelleher), who had just completed his 3-years in the factory as a trainee, was given the job to organise this new venture.
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- Personnel Officer - Apprentices
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- Publicity - Brochures / PR
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- Welfare / Enquiries - Office Manager
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- Production Manager
- Purchasing / Prod Planning
All these tasks would have been carried out by the teams of people employed in the production control and purchasing departments, situated on the ground floor but separate from the factory.
In turn, they depended on the work of the accounts department, to check and pay the bills, and the stores team to receive and organise all the deliveries from the outside suppliers.
The day-to-day coordination of the flow of parts throughout the factory was handled by a large team of progress chasers.
They would be in constant motion from department to department, checking and directing each batch of work through its various machining and treatment shops, and finally into the stores.
Sir Norman J Hulbert, MP and ex. WW2 squadron leader, joined the board as chairman in 1962 and proclaimed that AMC was "on the way to recovery".
Under Sir Norman's stewardship, the AMC directors plan was to amalgamate Norton engines into a series of hybrid Matchless machines, that ended up totally confusing all their previous loyal customers.
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- Production Planning / Progress
The photo above, extracted from the Apprentices page, shows Tony and Les, on one the latter's rare wide-awake days.