A new production line for overdrive car gear-boxes produced for Laycock Engineering in Sheffield. John Careless is quoted.

A four-wheel automatic shot-blasting plant. Maurice Jewitt is mentioned.

The article gives a history of the firm. Monks and Son, Redditch, Garretts Green Lane (Sheldon, Birmingham) and Strawberry Lane (Wolverhampton) are mentioned.

The firm was building an electrical and environmental test centre for its products. The photograph shows Mr K. C. Baggott stacking transformer windings in the tropical chamber.

Workers went on strike over a plan to stop Union meetings. The photograph shows Charles B. Barton.

The firm invested in new machinery and premises. Jeenashire Ltd., S. Barnard Engineering, S. B. Engineering, Shelfield and Walsall are mentioned. The photograph shows Roger Perks with Paul Haywood.

1 year on from Marks and Spencer moving out of the High Street, Bilston was said to be in decline. The photograph shows an empty shop premises to let with Edwards, Bigwood & Bewlay.

For the first time in several years, the gallery had a direct entrance to the street. Kidderminster’s School of Science and Art and Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee are mentioned.

The photograph shows offices to let in an unknown building in Bilston, which had failed to attract interest, along the shopping precinct around the corner had fared better.

The pool was out of action while workmen repaired a leak. The photograph shows Catherine Starkey and her brother David from Tettenhall Wood in the empty pool.