{"id":727,"date":"2015-04-23T15:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.harrisoncastings.com\/en_US\/?p=727"},"modified":"2016-09-29T19:25:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T19:25:15","slug":"from-the-archives-meet-the-foundry-five","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harrisoncastings.com\/en_US\/from-the-archives-meet-the-foundry-five\/","title":{"rendered":"From The Archives \u2013 Meet the Foundry Five"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harrison Castings Ltd was founded in 1911, and like all businesses who have been around for a while, we\u2019ve got more than a few stories to tell.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In From\u00a0The Archives, we\u2019ll share some of the stories from the history of Harrison Castings \u2013 about the things we\u2019ve made, and the people who made them.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_397\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-397\" class=\"wp-image-397 size-full\" title=\"Casting off: Foundry workers from left, Jack Smith, Aubert Parke, George Challenger, Lionel Peters and Tadeusz Szkudlapski\" src=\"https:\/\/www.harrisoncastings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/foundry-five-show-mettle-featured-image.jpg\" alt=\"Casting off: Foundry workers from left, Jack Smith, Aubert Parke, George Challenger, Lionel Peters and Tadeusz Szkudlapski\" width=\"510\" height=\"333\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-397\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Casting off: Foundry workers from left, Jack Smith, Aubert Parke, George Challenger, Lionel Peters and Tadeusz Szkudlapski<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today we\u2019ll take a look at \u201cThe Foundry Five\u201d, a group of five foundry workers who, in 1996, retired together, having clocked up a combined 195 years of dedicated service between them.<\/p>\n<p>The Factory Five included Jack Smith, Aubert Parke, George Challenger, Lionel Peters, and Tadeusz Szkudlapski. The five joined the company during a recruitment drive that stretched from 1949 to 1959 to meet Harrison Castings\u2019 post-war expansion. Interestingly, three of the five were amongst the very first West Indians to arrive in Leicester looking for work.<\/p>\n<p>In 1996, The Five were interviewed for a celebratory feature by Jayne Freer of the Leicester Mercury.<\/p>\n<p>George Challenger, then aged 65, began working for Harrison Castings in 1959, having arrived from Antigua. He worked for the company for 37 years before retiring. He said: \u201cI needed work and my uncle, who already worked here, told me to come along. Over the years, the foundry has become like a second home to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Tadeusz Szkudlapski arrived in England from the Middle East in 1949, having served in the Second World War with the Polish army. Having served a total of 48 years, Tadeusz was the true veteran amongst The Five.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a different tale working now to when I first joined,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was hard work in those days without all the equipment we have today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe place has grown so much over the years. It will be missed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We love the story of The Foundry Five, for a number of reasons. First of all, it confirms that Harrison Castings has always acted as a hub of not just Leicester industry, but also of the wider community. We have always been immensely proud of our large and varied team, and it\u2019s fantastic to see that workers in our foundry have always treated the place as a home from home.<\/p>\n<p>But this story also highlights our commitment to progress, development, and investment. Tadeusz spoke about how much things had changed during his time with us. As we continuously invest in new techniques and technologies, it\u2019s likely that some of our current workforce are experiencing similar changes!<\/p>\n<p>So raise a glass to The Foundry Five, for doing their bit to help us become the world-class foundry we are today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harrison Castings Ltd was founded in 1911, and like all businesses who have been around for a while, we\u2019ve got more than a few stories to tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-archives-us"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>From The 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