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MODELS GET THE MESSAGE ACROSS

Models were made by apprentices for various purposes:

  1. As a means of showing potential customers what the equipment being discussed would look like. This being part of a Yates welding assembly.

    When in May 1958, Steele & Cowlishaw was being acquired by Baker Perkins, they were themselves buying Yates Plant Ltd, a supplier of welding equipment and welding manipulators.

    When Yates Plant came into the Group, a large contract was obtained to provide welding gear for the twelve heat exchangers at the nuclear power station at Trawsfynydd in North Wales. Other orders followed in this new market but it was discovered that heat exchangers could be made from concrete and the demand for welding equipment for this purpose dried up. The Yates Company continued for a time at Bedewell, engaged in general engineering activities of Baker Perkins Limited.

  2. A model of a Baker Perkins Bread Dough Mixer from the 1930s as a keepsake for important visitors to the company.

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