This piece is from the unpublished manuscript titled “The story of Hoffmanns-Chelmsford 1898-1969” by M.H.Cobbold, Publicity Manager 1960-1969. This manuscript is held at the Essex Public Records Office in Chelmsford. “To perpetuate those who lost their lives at the Chelmsford works a plaque, in the form of a symbolic Roller Bearing, was designed by a member of the Personnel Department, fabricated by The Tool Room & The Machine Tool Room Maintenance Department in Stainless steel supplied by the Hoffmann parent company Brown Bayley’s and mounted upon a base contributed by The Carpenters Shop, a memorial garden in the Borough Cemetery was dedicated & the Company, on behalf of its employees was pleased to accept the gracious offer of the Borough Council to maintain the garden in perpetuity” © Essex Public Records Office |
