THE NOMBREX TEAM..
THE ORIGINAL OWNER OF NOMBREX WAS BELIEVED TO BE A MR SCARSDALE OR SIMILAR NAME
TOM PAWLEY FROM COLATON RALEIGH WAS THE RATHER ECCENTRIC BUT BRILLIANT CHIEF ENGINEER
MR JOYCE
WAS THE GENERAL MANAGER WHO
WAS
PREVIOUSLY WITH SIFAM AT TORBAY.....SIFAM SUPPLIED SOME OF
THE PANEL METERS FOR
NOMBREX POWER SUPPLIES AND FREQUENCY METERS.
MY GOOD
FRIEND
DAVE JACQUES
WORKED FOR NOMBREX FROM AUGUST
1969 UNTIL ITS MOVE TO
NEWTON ABBOT IN JULY 1972 AS AN ELECTRONICS ENGINEER, CALIBRATING
AND FAULT
FINDING ON MOST OF THE RANGE .. HE HAS SUPPLIED MOST OF THE
INFORMATION I HAVE,
THERE IS LIKELY SOME MORE DETAILS TO COME BUT HE SAYS HIS BRAIN IS
NOT WORKING
AS WELL AS IT USED TO..PERSONALLY I THINK THE MEMORY PROBLEMS ARE
DUE TO
EXCESSIVE INTAKE OF PLJ CORDIAL...!! :-)
LYNN WEST FROM LYMPSTONE WAS A LONG TIME ASSEMBLY WORKER
APPARENTLY THERE FROM DAY 1 UNTIL THE MOVE IN 1972..
OTHER ASSEMBLY
WORKERS WERE
FRANKIE
(MCLEOD), AND A SUMMER
JOB WORKER BEFORE UNI
WAS
CLARE PORTMAN
NOW A FAMOUS
AUTHOR/NOVELIST.
CLAIRE
MORAL
A MR MINOR WAS THE STORE MAN
STEVE LUGGER
FROM EXMOUTH WAS A
TRAINEE ENGINEER ALONG WITH
JIM (JIMBO) FROM BUDLEIGH SALTERTON JIM GOODING ??
ALL THE CASES WHICH
RANGED FROM GREY TO DARK BLUE PAINT FINISH WERE CONVENIENTLY
MADE
NEXT DOOR AT A SHEET METAL FACTORY (the white building in the
picture).THE
QUALITY OF THE CASES APPARENTLY LEFT SOMETHING TO BE DESIRED WITH
SEVERAL
BATCHES BEING REJECTED BY THE DEMANDING GERMAN NORDMENDE COMPANY
WHO HAD SEVERAL
CUSTOMISED FRONT PANELS FITTED TO THE STANDARD RANGE SIG GENERATORS
AND SOLD
THEM AS PART OF THE NORDMENDE TEST EQUIPMENT RANGE
...
THE FACTORY
HAD THEIR OWN PLASTIC MOULDING SECTION AND MADE ALL THEIR OWN
SCALES AND KNOBS
ON SITE, THE LINES ON THE POINTERS WERE ALL STUCK ON THE REVERSE
SIDE OF THE
SCALES BY HAND AND NOT ALWAYS SYMETRICALLY... THE PLASTICS SECTION
WAS ALSO USED
TO PRODUCE THE SLIDE RULES AND WERE THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NOMBREX
FORD POP
PLASTIC FRONT END..
WHEN
NOMBREX
HAD A REBIRTH TO
NOMBREX
1969 IN
1969....A
MR NEWMAN
FROM
TORQUAY WAS AT THE HELM..HE WAS THE ARCHITECT OF THE MOVE TO AN
INDUSTRIAL
ESTATE NEAR DECOY IN NEWTON ABBOT IN 1972 .. I HAVE NO
DETAILS OF WHAT HAPPENED
TO NOMBREX IN NEWTON ABBOT.. THEY SEEMED TO DISAPPEAR VERY QUICKLY
WITH NO
ADVERTISING APPEARING WITH THEIR NEW ADDRESS THAT I HAVE
SEEN..
If you have any Nombrex related information, photos,
service or
sales info or any personal info on the company.... please please
contact me...
nombrex@g8gon.com
Hi,
Whilst looking on ebay this
afternoon for some cheap audio
generators I came across a
NOMBREX unit. Fascinated by a brand that ceased
before my 1972 "manufacture
date", I found your website, and did some
digging around and found
these:
http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/44886/pages/6838/page.pdf
http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/44908/pages/7902/page.pdf
http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/44908/pages/7906/page.pdf
http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/44908/pages/7909
What is slightly bizarre is
they went in Liq. at the same
time as "Fi-cord", I used to
have an ancient fi-cord tape-player when
I was about 11/12.
The following (whilst a
little sad) may well be connected
(daughter?), there does seem to
be a few Scarisbricks in that area.
http://www.familynotices24.co.uk/?_fstatus=search;keywords=%2BAnne%20%2BScarisbrick
kind regards,
Ben Fisher, G1YWC