Nightmare
Hi Pete,
Yes, I agree.
After I left Hughes, I travelled overseas for almost 2 years and it was in that time the place was cleared, with some of the stuff going on to Powertrain products who are still operating but this was mostly transmission parts.
At Hughes, the warehouse had been well set up, with all the parts catalogued in a card file system which I'd look through at lunchtimes, checking one of the many parts books for something particularly interesting, then checking the cards, then going to the location to sometimes find a real gem, such as a new Ford horn button (which I bought) or new windscreen glasses, or wiring looms. There were even some cab panels there. One of my jobs was to pull down sidevalve V8 engines for reconditioning and I had that down to a fine art. It was interesting to see many of the 8BA engines had cracked blocks. The Mercury type were usually OK though.
Then there was the interest and excitement of visiting the engine rebuilders to see them grinding crankshafts or assembling engines with the new parts I delivered to them, then taking the newly painted motors back to await new owners.
Those were the days (sigh).
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