Vauxhall Motors Memories: First ever team honoured
TOGETHER again 46 years after they first played, Vauxhall Motors - with a little help from the Pioneer - reunited some of the surviving members of the original works team that became Vauxhall Motors FC.
Back in 1963 workers at the plant, some originally from the firm's sister plant in Luton, decided to start a works team, as they had done down south.
With former West Brom player Fred Ward in charge the side came together quickly, joining the Ellesmere Port League.
On Saturday, Motors invited those they have been able to trace to the Motassist Arena to receive framed pictures of that 1963 squad on the day the Motormen enjoyed their highest-ever league finish in Blue Square North.
The above picture shows surviving members of the first ever Vauxhall Motors team Bobby Bloor, Len Amos, Sammy Millington and Billy Cooper plus Judith Glover, widow of the late Roy Glover, receiving photographs of the original Motors team from current club chairman Alan Bartlam.
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I am interested to hear from anyone who worked in ea block "passenger hard grinding"624 dept.between 1964 to 1976.I was shop steward there for a number of years and emigrated to Australia when I left.