Lucas Memories Great King Street End of an era 1

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this brilliant collection of photos.</div> <bR> <div> EE-1</div> <div> <IMG SRC="b8bfe510.jpg" border=0 width="510" height="337" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Great King Street</div> <div> July 1987</div> <div> GKS taken from near New John Street West, with M and D</div> <div> blocks to the left</div> <div> The familiar frontage formed by GK and M blocks was</div> <div> completed by 1930</div> <bR> <div> EE-2</div> <div> <IMG SRC="b8cfe510.jpg" border=0 width="510" height="337" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Great King Street</div> <div> July 1987</div> <div> GKS taken from near New John Street West with mostly</div> <div> G and GK blocks in view to the right</div> <bR> <div> EE-3</div> <div> <IMG SRC="b8dfe510.jpg" border=0 width="510" height="337" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Great King Street</div> <div> July 1987</div> <div> GKS taken from Farm Street with H and G blocks to the left</div> <bR> <div> EE-4</div> <div> <IMG SRC="b8efe510.jpg" border=0 width="510" height="337" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Great King Street</div> <div> May 1988</div> <div> Similar to photo above taken the following year as heavy plant is</div> <div> moved out</div> <bR> <div> EE-5</div> <div> <IMG SRC="b8ffe4f0.jpg" border=0 width="510" height="335" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Great King Street</div> <div> July 1987</div> <div> Last days of K6</div> <bR> <div> EE-6</div> <div> <IMG SRC="b90fe4f0.jpg" border=0 width="510" height="335" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Great King Street</div> <div> July 1987</div> <div>  Last days of K6</div> <bR> <div> EE-7</div> <div> <IMG SRC="b91fe4f0.jpg" border=0 width="510" height="335" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Great King Street</div> <div> July 1987</div> <div>  Last days  of K6</div> <bR> <div> EE-8</div> <div> <IMG SRC="b92fe4f0.jpg" border=0 width="510" height="335" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Great King Street</div> <div> July 1987</div> <div> Future wiper production was to be split between</div> <div> Delco, Electrolux, and Great Hampton Street</div> <bR> <div> EE-9</div> <div> <IMG SRC="b93fe4f0.jpg" border=0 width="510" height="335" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Great King Street</div> <div> July 1987</div> <div> In the final weeks stocks had to be built up, over and above </div> <div> the schedules, so that customers would face no shortages</div> <div> whilst the lines where being transferred, and then restarted</div> <div> on their new sites.</div> <bR> <div> EE-10</div> <div> <IMG SRC="b94fe4f0.jpg" border=0 width="510" height="335" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Great King Street</div> <div> July 1987</div> <div> K6</div> <div> During the whole of the changeover to the new production</div> <div> sites there were no delays to any customer's output or a single </div> <div> day lost by any disputes during 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