Valve factory in Sunderland



JAZZMANB said:
My Mate has retired his Diezel amp from gigging due to valve shortages .My oldish Peavey bass head didnt like anything but one Russian brand (amp built in states )
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You can still pretty much get anything but it becomes expensive the rarer they get. I've done a bit of homework on sources lately if I can be of any help.
 
Missed this thread at the time hopefully you got your answers by now .If not I can tell you I worked at B factory and the adjacent D factory from 1970 untill it closed .B+D factory made cathode ray tubes for monochrome tvs and valves like pcl85 .The A factory was at the top of Steels Bank and made radio valves
 
vinegar hill said:
I worked at the Thorn’s factory in Pallion for a year in the mid seventies.
Humping big TV tubes about.
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Is that the factory that became auto leisure land, on the site this is now Pallion retail park? It then became mfi for a while till new units were built and mfi moved out. It was then demolished to make way for more units.
My father in law who was a salesman's dream went into auto leisure land to buy some wiper blades and ended up buying a car instead. The mother in law wasn't impressed. I think they held a Sunday market on the site as well back in the seventies.
 
zinedine said:
Is that the factory that became auto leisure land, on the site this is now Pallion retail park? It then became mfi for a while till new units were built and mfi moved out. It was then demolished to make way for more units.
My father in law who was a salesman's dream went into auto leisure land to buy some wiper blades and ended up buying a car instead. The mother in law wasn't impressed. I think they held a Sunday market on the site as well back in the seventies.
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I don’t think it became Auto Leisureland.
It was right at the top of the estate.
 
Lord Potts said:
There was a big Eriksons factory in North Hylton Road Southwick until I believe the 1970's . They manufactured valves. Me mam worked there for a short time in the early 1960' s I remember that the bottom of her shopping bag was layers in tiny horseshoe shaped fillaments
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Yeah my mam worked at Eriksons too, the mid sixties.
 

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