Baker Perkins Historical Society - Virtual Books

Other “Virtual Books” planned or available to date:

• BPHS VB01 A Miscellany of Baker Perkins Bits and Pieces
• BPHS VB02 Baker Perkins Working in the Wider Community
• BPHS VB03 Baker Perkins at War
• BPHS VB04 Baker Perkins at its Zenith - (Under consideration?)

Other conventional books produced by the Baker Perkins Historical Society:

• BPHS 001 A History of the CPO
• BPHS 002 A Hundred Years of Baker Perkins at Westwood Works 1903-2003
  
• BPHS 003 Memories of the Baker Perkins Sports and Social Club
  
• BPHS 004 Baker Perkins – Not Just a Place to Work
  
• BPHS 005 Growing Our Own Wood – Development of the Baker Perkins Apprenticeship Scheme
  
• BPHS 006 Through the Years: Baker Perkins People and Places

More information on the development of Baker Perkins Ltd, its subsidiaries and associated companies and the Baker Perkins Group as a whole, can be found on two websites – www.westwoodworks.net and www.bphs.net.

Frontispiece:Baker Perkins office block in Westfield Road, commandeered by the Air Ministry in April 1934 as an aiming point in RAF bomber squadron exercises, seen here decked in wartime camouflage.

Westwood Works in World War One

This book is dedicated to those Westwood men who went to war and to those who did not return, to the women who took their place in the factory in both wars and by whose efforts the troops were provided with the tools that, in Winston Churchill’s words - enabled them to finish the job.

INDEX OF CONTENTS

• OVERVIEW
• PREFACE
• BAKER PERKINS GROUP COMPANIES INVOLVED WITH THE MILITARY:
  • 1. During 19th Century wars
  • 2. During the build-up to a world war
  • 3. During World War One
  • 4. Between the Wars
  • 5. During World War Two
  • 6. Looking back on WW2
  • 7. During the Cold War
• EPILOGUE
• CONCLUSIONS

 

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