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Cheers!! And a hearty toast to all, past, present, and to future generatio=
ns
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From: John Macartney <johnbmacartney@gmx.com>
Date: 12/22/23 10:07 PM (GMT-06:00)
To: triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: [TR] Maybe the last lunch
For at least the last thirty years, I have attended a self-funded Christmas=
lunch held in Coventry for former employees of Standard-Triumph=92s Home a=
nd Export Sales departments, Export Shipping, Dealer Development, Advertisi=
ng and staff from the Parts Division. These were what anyone visiting the b=
uilding known as Fletch South would have encountered had they arrived at th=
at location. All in all, about 250-300 people tops. My first lunch back in =
1992 (I=92d been living overseas until then) saw a total headcount of about=
180 and over the years that followed we always drank a toast in memory of =
those who had died during the previous year or who were absent through ill =
health. During the pandemic and the two lockdowns of 2020 and 2021, we didn=
=92t have a Christmas lunch because of infection risk but we do know too ma=
ny people died through COVID, cancer or just old age. Today was sobering fo=
r all of us as only 10 place settings were at our usual table and the Memor=
ial Toast was for 49 people who were hale, hearty, life and soul, happy and=
jolly at the 2019 lunch which everyone today also attended.
It seems but only yesterday we were all together working for one objective,=
young women, young men, together with many more older examples of the same=
. And in a finger snap, but just a few survive and for maybe only a little =
while longer? Who knows? How many place settings for the 2024 lunch? I=92d =
rather not ponder that.
Jonmac
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<div>From: John Macartney <johnbmacartney@gmx.com> </div>
<div>Date: 12/22/23 10:07 PM (GMT-06:00) </div>
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d a self-funded Christmas lunch held in Coventry for former employees of St=
andard-Triumph=92s Home and Export Sales departments, Export Shipping, Deal=
er Development, Advertising and staff
from the Parts Division. These were what anyone visiting the building know=
n as Fletch South would have encountered had they arrived at that location.=
All in all, about 250-300 people tops. My first lunch back in 1992 (I=92d =
been living overseas until then) saw
a total headcount of about 180 and over the years that followed we always =
drank a toast in memory of those who had died during the previous year or w=
ho were absent through ill health. During the pandemic and the two lockdown=
s of 2020 and 2021, we didn=92t have
a Christmas lunch because of infection risk but we do know too many people=
died through COVID, cancer or just old age. Today was sobering for all of =
us as only 10 place settings were at our usual table and the Memorial Toast=
was for 49 people who were hale,
hearty, life and soul, happy and jolly at the 2019 lunch which everyone to=
day also attended.<br>
It seems but only yesterday we were all together working for one objective,=
young women, young men, together with many more older examples of the same=
. And in a finger snap, but just a few survive and for maybe only a little =
while longer? Who knows? How many
place settings for the 2024 lunch? I=92d rather not ponder that.<br>
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Jonmac<br>
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