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Custom-built Groupage – 1950s
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Custom-built Beck & Pollitzer groupage vehicle
This Beck & Pollitzer vehicle was custom-built in the 1950s. As the photo shows, the vehicle was manufactured in London, as H.M. Government (UK) had recently issued new and detailed requiremen…
Maintenance and installation work
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Royal Artillery Memorial – maintenance and installation work for the British Government
This ThrowbackThursday is from the 1940s and shows Beck & Pollitzer providing maintenance and installation work for the British Government.
The statue in t…
Beck & Pollitzer Travel Division
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Beck & Pollitzer Travel Division – Trip to Russia
This ThrowbackThursday is another Beck & Pollitzer Travel Division treat from 1959. In a previous post, we showed a photo of Academy Award winner Vivien Leigh with Glyn Byam Shaw and our T…
Leipzig Orchestra – 1930s
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Leipzig Orchestra, one of the many clients who toured with the Beck & Pollitzer Travel Division
This photo was taken in the 1930s and features one of the trips organized by the Beck & Pollitzer Travel division. As you can see from the imag…
Branded vehicles 1928
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Beck & Pollitzer’s initial fleet of branded vehicles
These two photos were taken in 1928, as Beck & Pollitzer began to expand its fleet of branded vehicles.
The first photo shows an Albion, one of the company’s preferred delivery vehicles….
5-ton Mill Rolls for shipment
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Beck & Pollitzer Packaging Department preparing 3 x 5 tons Mill Rolls for shipment
This week’s ThrowbackThursday is from the 1960s and shows a project from Beck & Pollitzer’s Export Packing Department.
The team received three 5-ton Mill Ro…
Broaching machine packing 1951
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Broaching machine packing to prevent any damage occurring during transport
This ThrowbackThursday is from 1951. The photo shows a Broaching machine from the side view, in the process of being packed by our Beck & Pollitzer team.
A Broaching ma…
Packing of a Jensen Interceptor
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Packing of a Jensen Interceptor for transport to Kuwait in 1969
This week’s ThrowbackThursday is from 1969. It shows a Beck & Pollitzer engineer at the Smethwick works in the West Midlands, packing a Jensen Interceptor for transport to Kuw…
The Lady Godiva Statue
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This week’s Throwback Thursday is a legendary installation project from 1989.
Beck & Pollitzer was hired to remove and reinstall Coventry’s famous Lady Godiva statue. It originally faced south but needed to be moved to a west-facing position d…
The Jules Jar Exhibition stand
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Over the years, Beck & Pollitzer has delivered services for many industries, including Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and Canning & Packaging. This week’s ThrowbackThursday gives us a look at the company’s first humble forays into …