[BITList] JH Fenner, Marfleet.

[John Feltham]

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From: Richard.Wilkinson at FennerDunlop.com
Subject: Re: JH Fenner, Marfleet.
Date: 19 February 2015 3:22:34 pm AEST
To: John Feltham <wantok at me.com>

Hello John,

Thanks for the mail, it's most interesting. Your family's Fenner association certainly goes back a long way.

We still have an operation at Marfleet but only for conveyor belting now, we sold the engineering and rubber businesses in the 1990's and all that part of the factory has since been demolished.

Have you tried http://www.fennerdunlopeurope.com/home <http://www.fennerdunlopeurope.com/home>? There you will find a link to download our 150th Anniversary Brochure which came out in 2011. It goes into more detail about our history.

Regarding India, since 2004 there have been changes there too. The old factory is still there but Fenner (India) Ltd now belongs to an Indian company, the JK Organisation and has nothing at all to do with the global Fenner.
They can still use the Fenner name but only in India. As part of the split, in 2004 the global Fenner built a new factory about 15Km away and relocated the conveyor belting business. 

Check out http://www.fennerdunlopindia.com/home <http://www.fennerdunlopindia.com/home>

You might remember the Madura club next to the Fenner India factory and all the bungalows for the management. Well that is now a hotel called The Heritage and the bungalows have been converted into rooms.

Do you remember the big house on the hill that used to be the home of the MD back in the 1950's. Well again that has been converted into a hotel and that's where I usually stay. It's owned by the TATA group and used to be called
the Taj Garden Retreat until they renamed it The Gateway.

As for me, I'm 37 years with Fenner, I'm originally from Hull and I used to work at Marfleet. I am now based in Shanghai but have responsibility for the new Indian plant and I travel to Madurai every month.

Thanks again for the article.

Best regards

Richard Wilkinson



From:        John Feltham <wantok at me.com>
To:        Richard.Wilkinson at fennerdunlop.com
Date:        17/02/2015 15:34
Subject:        JH Fenner, Marfleet.


G’day Richard,

I have been searching the web for an email address for the Marfleet operations of Fenners, without any success. The web site contains a snail mail address, phone numbers but no email address - not even a ‘Sales’ email address.

I am the second son of Herbert Henry FELTHAM who built the Fenner-Cockhill factory in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, in the mid 1950’s.

He died there on the 30th December 1962. My mother, brother and myself were present when he passed away.

I have been looking at this web page - History of JH Fenner at  http://www.fenner.com/en/about_us/history <http://www.fenner.com/en/about_us/history>

I find it strange that there is no mention of the factory in Madurai.

I also find it strange that there is no mention in the History of the war-time move of the company and its work force to Colne, in Lancashire.

Our whole family were involved in this move to Colne. I started school  there and my brother went to the Grammar School in Colne. There is a lot of history about those times.

As the Family Historian I would like to send you the two pages of my father’s indentures. He was indentured to JH Fenner for the period of SIX years as a "Loom Tuner". He died in the service of JH Fenner in Madurai.

The paper that the ‘indenture‘ is typed on, is of very poor quality and exceedingly thin.

Note the payment that he received in his first year four pence halfpenny per hour!  I’m sure that some people would say “Ah!. Those were the days!"

At the time of my birth [1937] we lived on the same street as JH Fenner in Marfleet. Our house was bombed out when a land mine came down on the factory.

Regards

 
John Feltham
Townsville
North Queensland
Australia.
PS. There are two images. Too big for one email. Second email will contain Page 2.



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