Angela Stokes demonstrates a treasure chest that the company wants to lend out for Christmas pantomimes or parties. Derek Thorpe is quoted.

An employee operating a new computer-controlled production centre for profile cylinder mortice locks.

Tractor shovels outside the factory awaiting shipment to Burma for their timber industry.

Exterior of modern lock making plant.

Two female employees. “Maggie” is written on the rear of the photograph.

Five directors were celebrating their long service, including Geoff Smith. The Yale Mechanical Handling Group is mentioned, and the photograph shows an employee loading lock components on to custom-made jigs in readiness for final plating.

Paintings by Brian Yale showed the battlefields as they appeared contemporaneously, alongside photographs of the battles. The photograph shows Gillian Shepherd (left) and Ryan Gewar from Wolverhampton Polytechnic viewing one of the paintings.

The photograph shows Debbie Gates, Dean Pugh, Kim Pugh, Malcolm Dyas and Mick Ryder. Caterpillar, Yale and Lansing are mentioned.

The company was selling a new series of electric rider lift trucks.

Iraq had placed a large order for locks with the firm, to be used in their house building programme. Geoffrey Smith (left) is seen giving final instructions to two of the drivers setting off for Baghdad.