Alex Owen Service Department
Part of the fully equiped repair workshops
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Radio control to direct the van fleet
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David Stimpson (shown right) has written to describe his wonderful memories of working at Alex Owen as a TV engineer.
He describes it as 'one of the happiest work locations I ever experienced. It was like one big family, no one ever seemed to
leave - not in the service department at least'.
After joining Alex Owen in September 1962, he spent almost nine years
as part of the team of mobile engineers, based at Station Road, Beeston and working in every town and village in Nottinghamshire,
Derbyshire and Leicestershire.
In August 1971, he was appointed to be in charge of the field service operations - still
47 vans and still based at Station Road. K Allcock was then in overall control there, with D Peel in charge of the workshop. This
continued until June 1975 when he was moved to Long Eaton to open a service department for ex-Alex Owen rental customers, now
under the Loyds Surevision name.
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Dave and his van outside the Station Road HQ
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The mobile public address and closed-circuit television unit - another Alex Owen innovation
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