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Delivery of a new Rover P5 in 1958

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Delivery of a (then) brand-new Rover P5 to the Royal Festival Hall This ThrowbackThursday is from 1958 and shows the delivery of a (then) brand-new Rover P5 to the Royal Festival Hall. Beck & Pollitzer undertook the project for the car’s origi…
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Installation of 180 machines in the 1950s

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Installation of 180 machines in just 3 days for an electronic components manufacturer! This ThrowbackThursday is an impressive project from the 1950s. Beck & Pollitzer undertook an installation project for the Mullard Valve Co. at their Mitcha…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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….
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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…
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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…
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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…
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