Wortley Coneyers

Palletizers were pieces of elaborate hydraulic and electrical machinery that sat in conveyor systems to raise or rotate pallets of stuff, in essence to change direction of a conveyor line or, in some cases, wrap loaded pallets.

At the beginning of 1978 I was brought into the drawing office to work on them, it felt like I had been thrown in at the deep end, no more tea boy or lunchtime chippy antics, I now had my chance to be a draughtsman.

It was to be an interesting and challenging time, my first experience with a true shop floor and manufacturing company, draughting with pencil and ink, using some of those skills that Harold Hill drawing office had driven into me and a feeling that, at last, I had some sort of a future in the North of England.