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Reyrolle GG men 1948

Posted by Mac Cummings on February 4, 2019, 4:55 pm

Been working in the loft and Garage for a month now thinning out stuff, the important stuff that we had forgotten we had. What a job with much more to do. All this as we downsize to a new, smaller, property.
I found this one for the gallery Norman and for the Reyrolle Collection Barry.
My Dad at 31....I have no idea what the GG men were.Could it have been something to do with the Contracts Dept which my old man headed up in the sixties?
I do remember some of the blokes in later life as customers at the Bank

Re: Reyrolle GG men 1948

Posted by Norman Dunn on February 4, 2019, 5:12 pm, in reply to "Reyrolle GG men 1948"

Hi Mac,
Could you send a larger scan if possible.
Thanks.
No idea what GG Men means as I never worked in Reyrolles.Bet someone will tell us

Re: Reyrolle GG men 1948

Posted by Barrie Mortimer on February 4, 2019, 7:42 pm, in reply to "Re: Reyrolle GG men 1948"

Could the GG men have been the cavalry?
Before working in the Contracts Dept. I was in the GP lab, which was the General Purpose lab. There were lots of abbreviations used but I never came across GG.

Re: Reyrolle GG men 1948

Posted by Don Scott on February 4, 2019, 10:28 pm, in reply to "Re: Reyrolle GG men 1948"

Could I suggest the it may simply be a tonge in cheek reference to the Great and Good. The group depicted seem to be part of a higher echelon within the company, movers and shakers if you like and have considered themselves the GG Men. Just a guess of course.

Re: Reyrolle GG men 1948

Posted by Barry Cram on February 4, 2019, 10:33 pm, in reply to "Reyrolle GG men 1948"

Hello Mac,

Looking at your photograph, at first I thought GG Men might have been 'General Group', or similar, though, it seems that no-one that worked at Reyrolle had heard of a department named GG.

So I looked further into the photograph and noticed that the bespectacled main man, in the centre, is G. G. Maxwell.

Gilbert Grierson Maxwell, was an Electrical Engineer at Reyrolle, and his address at the time was 9, South Drive, Hebburn.
He was an ARP (Air Raid Warden), b.1896.

Therefore, as he was the 'top man' and all the men on the photograph below worked for him (including your dad), it wouldn't be too far a stretch of the imagination to think that the term 'GG Men' could mean 'Gilbert Grierson' men.

My guess is that he was affectionately known by his colleague as 'GG'.

Cheers,
Barry.

Re: Reyrolle GG men 1948

Posted by Don Scott on February 4, 2019, 11:13 pm, in reply to "Re: Reyrolle GG men 1948"

I would put some money on that theory, Barry.
Well spotted.

Re: Reyrolle GG men 1948

Posted by Mac Cummings on February 5, 2019, 10:08 am, in reply to "Re: Reyrolle GG men 1948"

Gordon Bennett Barry, You've come up trumps again.

Re: Reyrolle GG men 1948

Posted by Tom Dobson on February 5, 2019, 7:44 pm, in reply to "Re: Reyrolle GG men 1948"

There again they might of just like a flutter on the HORSES.

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