Description:Retiring after 56 years’ service in the firm’s press room, Mr Harry Smith is presented with a clock, a farewell gift from his colleagues, by Mr Gilbert Bostock, Company Secretary of Lotus Limited. Mr Smith, who lived at 28 Young Avenue, Stafford, went to the firm at the age of 13, following in the footsteps of his grandfather and father. The family link was not entirely broken by his departure, for a son still worked at the Stone factory.
This photograph was published in the Staffordshire Newsletter on Saturday 5 March 1955. Reproduced by kind permission of the Staffordshire Newsletter who retain copyright.