Remember General Motors at Cuerden? (From Preston and Leyland Citizen)

Remember General Motors at Cuerden?

11:16am Friday 5th December 2008

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I am appealing to anyone with information on the General Motors Ltd vehicle and engine repair works at Cuerden or Cuerden Mill in Bamber Bridge from 1941 to 1947.

GM relocated their assembly works to Bamber Bridge and were established by April 1941.

They must have employed local men and women.

As a result of a new book that I have co-written with Professor Alan Earnshaw on Pearsons Bros. of Liverpool’s wartime vehicle assembly and repair operations, I am hoping to follow-up with another book on GM’s wartime depots in Bamber Bridge and Cleckheaton, which the company moved to after their Southampton plant was bombed.

I have several wartime official photos of the operations although it appears that by December 1941 they moved to vehicle repairs and refurbishment only, though may have continued immediately post-war with ex-military vehicles for the civilian market.

David Hayward C/o Trans-Pennine Publishing Ltd PO Box 10 Appleby-in-Westmorland Cumbria CA16 6FA Book website: pearsonsofliverpool.co.uk

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