WHEN the Lithgow Small Arms Factory (now Thales) was booming, they enjoyed the reputation of producing some of the best apprentices in the world.
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Each year a host of young men were apprenticed to fitting and turning, carpentry, tool making, blacksmith and a whole range of specialised jobs.
For the apprentices of the 1963 intake, it is 50 years since they finished their apprenticeships and are looking to hold a reunion in Lithgow on March 2, 2013 at the Zig Zag Motel starting at 4pm with a meal being served around 7pm.
RSVP by February 1, 2013 to David Leake, 217 King Street, Newtown, 2042.
You will enjoy every moment of revisiting the past.
Phone 0411306 366.
Email: jxdleake@hotmail.com
SAF APPRENTICES: 1964, First and second year: Back row, Keith Wilkinson, Max Googh, Mal Opie, Denis Trevitt, Peter Ridgewell, Geoff Bannan, Col Rawsthorne, Dick Turnbull and Ray Marshall. Third, Apprentice master George Hood, Gary Mostyn, Laurie Cohen, Len Woods, Robert Howarth, Barry Dowd, Grahame Considine, Max Withers, Ken Sinclair, Fred Crowther and Peter Hudson. Second row from front, Jeff Denley, Ian Evans, Ian Pilley, Ron Martin, Allan Hamilton, Gary Fitzgerald, Brian Conran, Ray Thompson, Ian Gillman, Warren Gavin and Peter Phillips. Front row: Jim Murray, Garry Brooks, Mick Cole, John Posker, Ray Bright, Brian Brennan, Noel Evans, Royce Reed, Peter Lawler, Martin Sheehan, Ricky Cohen and Wayne Brown.
