It's about time that I finished this off rather than have it sit suspended in the drawing office.
Earlier entries provide information on the ultimate demise of Arnolds, so I won't rehash what was mentioned in those, and Peter Gregory's information very effectively covers the life and death of the company.
So all I want to say in this last entry is that I thoroughly enjoyed my time with Arnolds and my subsequent years in the elevator industry with Otis.
When it was all over, I had accumulated almost 30 years (29 years and 4 months) in the business, with my career starting as an apprentice electrician and ending as a regional manager.
We experienced things and working conditions which could not exist today under current Health & Safety legislation yet it was all just normal to us. There is an oft-used cliche which says "it was a more innocent time" - well, it wasn't "innocent", just different because that was then and today is now. You can't judge the past on what you know today.
I hope that this blog stays available on the Blogger server for ever......it is a collection of personal historical information and anecdotes and that's exactly what history is made up of. Maybe my young grandchildren will have the opportunity to browse it one day - I hope so.
Regards to everyone who I knew and worked with and whose names form part of my indelible memories. Thank you for being there.
