Pilkington

The company then went on after I had left.

The company was sold to Pilkington in the UK in 1970. move to the United States and so on, and is now part of Carl Zeiss.

So what we're talking about here really is the Lorban and Pank days, which are the optometry practice sort of foundation days, which were really the first two decades of the company's existence.

And Just to confirm that story, so you were involved from 1970 to? To 1984, 83

And that's it for part one.

Next time, we'll get into what it actually took to build solar.

The cash that was never enough, the staff who lent the company their own money, the people who took an Adelaide culture into 14 countries, and what changed when Pilkington bought the business in 1979.

Once again, if you were part of the early solar story or you know somebody who was, reach out and let me know.

Front wings drilled for amber repeaters.

Soviet laminated windscreens, which had a habit of crazing, were swapped for Pilkington or triplex glass.

The static Soviet seatbelts pulled out and replaced with British inertia reel assemblies.

The tires came off too.

Now let me make it real with three cases because stories stick where checklists slide off.

The first is Jones and Pilkington UK Limited, and it's one of the clearest cautionary tales I've read in years.

A man with thirty-six years' service was off sick.

His employer suspected he wasn't as unwell as he said.

The themes are clarity, transparency, and worker voice, which tells you the direction of travel.

It's towards employers having to be open about how they watch their people.

And Pilkington is what the wrong end of that road looks like.

The second case is much newer.

There is a ruin of a castle by the parish church in the town.

It longed with the town sometime to the Pilkingtons, now to the Earls of Derby.

Pilkington had a place hard by Pilkington Park, three mile from Manchester.

Bolton upon Moor Market standeth most by cottons and coarse yarn.