The tool room at Mullards in Blackburn in 1976
The tool room at Mullards in Blackburn in 1976. Men hard at work producing valves for TV sets at the company which in its heyday employed more than 6,000 people at its 46 acre site off Philips Road. The company employed assemblers, technicians, chemists, scientists and engineers - it was the largest and best-equipped vacuum tube and manufacturing plant in Europe. It closed in 1982
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