"Stuck in a 'Moment.""
| The Start | UK Office | Albury Factory |
| Post Iran days | Receiver Cometh | Belvis days |
| HUB days | DART days | ADI days |
| NEW days | The PEOPLE | EXIT |
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the 'Pre-and-post Receiver' days:
Some remembered people, sort-of chronologically met, but moreso, 'just remembered,' eventually surviving the ATA Receiver or losing their ATA job: (Thanks for updates to: Ross Wheeler; Kevin Mayhew; )
Lindsay Charles Knight: Founder and Creator of Australasian Training Aids.
Wynne Knight: LCK's wife. Currently involved in many Albury voluntary works.
Tony Bender: LCK RH Man. Survived. Made redundant by ADI. Now retired in Albury.
Graham Hayward: Software Engineer. Survived and joined Hub Technology. Got a job at the Papermill.
Les Clay: A draftsman. Eventually took over the DO. Made redundant and moved to Howlong where he contracts for Uncle Toby's at Wahgunyah.
Edgar & Gladice Davis: ATA techo person and wife in ATA UK. Edgar died as did Gladice.
Peter & Caroline Hamilton: Ran the ATA UK office when I first joined ATA. Ran Ray White Real-Estate in Albury, now retired. Caroline is a daughter of LCK.
Tim Cornwall: Ex Tankie Brit Major. Recruited as Salesman. Left to become burser at girls college thence joined Murray Electricity and got fired. Believed to be making/selling log cabins.
Karl Dittler: Engineer. Survived. Made redundant by ADI. Now runs his own company performing R&D in Albury.
Terry Curtis: Sales & Export. Left before Receivership. Now lives in China running own Company.
Julian Glaser: Recruited as lab manager. Lasted 6 months. Fired. Back in UK working for a Braille typewriter company.
Ingrid Bergman??: LCK secretary. Whereabouts unknown.
Ilonah Trulah: Purchasing. Now working for the sight disabled society in Albury.
Ray Borman: Factory Test Technician. Went to UK Office to be Technician there. Married Elaine from UK Office. Lives in Hartley Wintney.
Dave Cash: Worked for Fulmer when I first met him. Subsequently recruited by ATA. Survived all the Receivers to become ADI lab manager and made redundant when Polytronic took over ADI. Now retired and living up north.
Frank Burke: ATA GM. Left before Receiver days to become a Financial Consultant. Whereabouts unknown.
Denise Trebly: Telephonist. Died 2010.
Ron Furness: Sales. Left and now in Real Estate.
Barbara Furness: Ran typing pool. Joined Hub Technology. Presumably helping Ron now.
Vicky Shadbolt: Word processor operator. Whereabouts unknown.
Andrew Kennedy: Contracts and sales. Survived through to ADI days. Believed to be running Dave's Dyno in Albury, now Kennedy's Auto Care.
Rick Jones: Company secretary. Allegedly won $M1 after leaving. Whereabouts unknown.
Ronnie Rattray: Shareholder. Died.
Dave Munro: Admin Services. Died.
Warren Wilks: ATA pilot. Drops in now and again at Range.
Mrs. Parkes: Administration.
Rowena Parkes: Daughter of Mrs. Parkes.
Brian Compton: Technical Services manager. Went to HP. Whereabouts unknown.
Les Adams: Recruited as a Mechanical Engineer. Became lab manager. Thought LCD watches consumed large current! Left one year later.
Terry Adams: Son of Les. Worked as Lab 'gofor.' Whereabouts unknown.
Terry Smith: Technician. Made redundant. Now sells / services Computers at Compnetronics in Albury.
Steve Bullock: Electrician / Electronics Technician. Left to run an Hotel. Whereabouts unknown.
Laurie Granger: Engineer, Made redundant. Joined Wodonga TAFE. Whereabouts unknown.
Ross Edwards: Factory metalwork shop now production manager with Spitwater (Australia) in Albury.
Colin Darts: Factory. Left and believed to have started an electronics service shop. Now President of Albury Rotary.
Dave Edwards: Electrical apprentice. Now production staff for tissue manufacturer in Albury.
Peter Beckwith: Lab Technician for a short time. Whereabouts unknown.
Bryan Green: Survived all Receivers. Now Chief software engineer at ATSPL.
Roy Casey: Technician. Survived to ADI days but left and works for Rytmar Technologies.
John Keogh: Technician. Made redundant and rumoured to have opened a 'Dick Smith' type of shop in central Australia.
Bob Nelson: Survived. Made redundant by ADI. Now retired.
Rosalind Rodrigues: Typographer. Became LCK Personal Secretary. Survived all redundancies. Now works for Milspec the Fallon Street manufacturing factory that was ATA.
Alan Shaw: Sales Manager, Asia. Died.
Graham Summers: QA Manager. Survived. Became Engineering Manager, DART Defence. Made redundant by DART.
'Budge' Burgess: QA tech. Left to sell hydraulic bits before receivership. Now retired. Living in Howlong.
Graham Nash: Factory Manager. Survived. Made redundant by ADI. Started a local mechanical engineering company.
Max Small: Factory Manager. Died.
Alex Mitrovitch: Handbook chap. Left before receivership. Whereabouts unknown.
Irene Causivich: Draughtsperson. Whereabouts unknown.
Joyce Walsh: Secretary. Left and went to Municipal work Albury.
Jim Kermode: Ex Pommie seargent ran ATA Range. Died.
Alastair Cameron: Purchasing. Scots chap. Whereabouts unknown.
Sammy & Audry Knox: Ran the ATA Iranian & Jordan offices. Now retired in UK.
Graham Krautz: Sales. Whereabouts unknown.
Joe Bendzius: Storeman. Survived and now with Milspec.
Tom Hills: Paintshop manager. Whereabouts unknown.
Dave Langdon: Mechanical Engineer. Whereabouts unknown.
John Atkinson: Electronic Engineer. Windows System Administrator INFO TECH.
Frank Grez: Computer Operations Supervisor. Whereabouts unknown.
Mike Johnston: Electrician. Left for the Mill. Now retired building motorcycles in Howlong.
Chris McCauliffe: Technician. Left to teach in Wagga. Whereabouts unknown.
Bruce Klempke: Installation. Died week 20 to 25 August 2007.
John & Joyce Hayes: Installation. Very early ATA employees. Whereabouts unknown.
Geoff Sherwell: Factory mechanical chap. Now with MARS Wodonga.
Alex Mitrovich: Catalogue Manager. Wherabouts unknown.
Greg Collette: Handbook writer. Left to start own company. Now living in Canterbury (Melbourne).
Peter Martin: Handbook writer. Left to start own company initially with Greg Colette. Whereabouts unknown.
Noelle Dunn: Handbook writer. Left and became a religious minister. Whereabouts unknown.
Mark Wright: Apprentice. Survived. Made redundant by ADI. Started Rytmar Technologies.
Greg Cosgrove: Apprentice. Made redundant. Started own business. Joined FATS in Albury. Joined their competitors.
Mrs Greg Cosgrove: (Apologies, cannot remember name.) Drawing office, Print room person. Married Greg.
Jeff Phillipson: Survived. Made redundant by ADI. Started Waybush and now contracts to Masterfoods.
Peter Boyland: Engineer. Recruited the same time as Jeff Phillipson. Lasted 1 year and joined ADFA as a technical officer.
Frank Wood: Technician. Recruited the same time as Jeff Phillipson. Fired and spent a lot of time out of work. Got a job at Parkes Earth Station.
Keith Jenkins: Sales. Became UAE Sales Rep. Now works for USA training company in UAE.
Robert Phillips: Engineer ex CCL. At my suggestion he was contacted by LCK and came out on contract to do many design tasks. At CCL RBP taught me a great deal about electronics theory. He could also, when annoyed, throw a telephone handset from 5m distance and get it to securely land on it's cradle!! He went back to UK to start an ultrasonic enterprise that is very successful.
Peter Broadbent: Mechanical Designer. Went freelance. Whereabouts unknown. Last heard of in Perth.
Gary Tolley: Draftsman. Survived. Made redundant when Polytronic bought ADI. Runs a local one-man consultancy.
John Deimel: Drawing Office. Left and started own consultancy. Believed to have purchased an Albury Caravan Park and now running it.
Noel Watson: Factory Engineer. Now with Rytmar Technologies.
Dave Watson: Groundsman. Whereabouts unknown.
Geof Rollings: Groundsman. Whereabouts unknown.
Bert Russell: Time & motion analyst. Now retired in Bendigo. Died 10 March 2011.
Keith Raine: Storeman. Died 22 September 2005.
Geoff Loneragan: Survived. Made redundant by ADI. Whereabouts unknown.
Bruce Boardman: Lab mechanical chap. Got a job at the Papermill at Ettamogah before Receivership. Whereabouts unknown.
Tony Collins: Purchasing chap. Made redundant many times over the years. Had a local band. Whereabouts unknown.
Terry Shipton (Shippo): Lab mechanical chap. Survived but made redundant by ADI. Went freelance for several years. Worked for ADI in Benalla. Died 23 December 2006.
Paul Roberts: Mechanical chap. Made redundant. Opened a bookstore in Albury. Whereabouts unknown.
Russell Fox: Cleaner. Living in Albury and barracking Brumby the Victorian PM about "The Pipeline.".
Ruth Cropper: Typographer. Whereabouts unknown.
Grant McIntosh: Electronics apprentice. Started a cleaning business.
Kevin Scholz: Chief Accountant / Company Secretary. Now living in Howlong.
Bernard Douglas-Jones: Later recruited to Management Srvices. Left to join Local Government.
Mike Cahill: Press Agent. Living in Albury.
Pat Costello: Assistant Stores Controller. Whereabouts unknown.
Peter Worrall: PPC Manager. Returned to UK then came back as Factory Controller. Whereabouts unknown.
Noel Fielder: Accounts. Whereabouts unknown.
John Fielder: Q A Technician. Whereabouts unknown.
Russell Sharp: QA apprentice. Survived to become ADI QA Manager. Now QA Manager for Milspec.
"Billie": Factory, then Lab Technician. Died in motorcycle accident.
Len Derkatz: Sale Manager replacing Cameron. Left. Whereabouts unknown.
Len Kynaston: Technician Now with MILSPEC.
Dave Bradshaw: Chief Production Engineer. Whereabouts unknown.
Noel Elliot: Apprentice Test Department. Joined gaming machine company. Whereabouts unknown.
Paul Wilkins: Test Technician. Went to Melbourne. Returned ABX repairing TV's. Whereabouts unknown.
Ross Wheeler: Engaged as software apprentice. Went to Jordan (for 10 days that turned into 10 months) with Robert Phillips to install target range. Left and started Albury Local Internet. (Thanks, Ross, for update on names etc.)
Graeme Pitson: Handbook writer. Survived and now with ATSPL.
Trevor Jacob: Planning Officer. Whereabouts unknown.
Graham Grove: Dispatch packing supervisor. Whereabouts unknown.
Linton Haberman: Mechanical Section, Leading Hand. Whereabouts unknown.
Lois Ziebel: Line Supervisor. Whereabouts unknown.
W. G. Barkla: Mechanical Inspector. Whereabouts unknown.
Len(?) Ziebel: Electrical Foreman. Whereabouts unknown.
N. Williams: Leading hand Rx Section. Whereabouts unknown.
Enid Fuller: Leading hand Mod. Section. Whereabouts unknown.
Steve McLeod: Import / Export Officer. Whereabouts unknown.
Geoff Sherwill: Production Engineer. Thought to have joined Uncle Bens.
Michael Mitchell: Sales. Died quite young.
Liz Moss: Sales typist. Whereabouts unknown.
Peter Dickson: Project Engineer factory. Left and joined Inductoheat. Thought to be in USA.
Dennis Fryer: Training Officer. Wherabouts unknown.
Vic Anastasi: Audio Visual & Publicity. Went to Army, Bandiana. Whereabouts unknown.
Warren Whittaker: Ex Colonel Brit Army. Range Consultant. Now retired living in Melbourne.
Brian McKeon: Son of Alan McKeon who bought LCK Electrical business and turned it into Electro-Industrial Maintenance Company (EIMCO). Brian spent a short time with ATA and now runs EIMCO very successfully.
Dean Ried: Factory wireman. Joined ATA lab as a Technician. Made redundant. Currently works for EIMCO.
Trevor Freeman: Test Department Supervisor. Left before Receiver to work in UK. Returned and started Consoft a successful local software company.
Ron Duncan: Became ATA QA manager. Joined MacQuarrie Worsteds. Whereabouts unknown.
Colin Moscrop: Electronic Engineer, Test Section. Whereabouts unknown.
Terry Dineen: Sales Manager. Survived to ADI days then left. Joined Howard Pyrotechnics.
Geoff Brown: Sales Manager. Survived and joined Plessey. Currently living in Holbrook. Retired.
Greg Petts: Sales apprentice. Now GM ATSPL.
Kevin McKinnon: Electrical apprentice. Survived receiverships to become GM of ADI. Resigned to start FATS Australia. Resigned from FATS. Started own Company, MilTect. Whereabouts unknown.
Andrew Treloar: Test Technician. Whereabouts unknown.
Kevin Mayhew: Personnel manager. Now the Housing Services Officer, Office of Housing & Community, Hume Region.
Karl Boltwood: Factory Electrical Technician. Whereabouts unknown.
Peter Worral: Factory Manager. Came and went back to UK then came back to join DART Defence when LCK lost ATA. Whereabouts unknown.
Sam Maxwell: QA Inspector. Lives in Howlong.
Heidi Koniken: Factory assembler. Now with MilSpec.
Wendy MacFarland: Typist. Central Registry. Left and moved to Corowa.
Peter Knight: LCK's eldest son. Did installation work. Formed his own Electrical Company in Albury. Now service technician with CPS Albury.
Robert Knight: LCK's youngest son. Now carrying on the work of Knight Industries.
Greg Fawcett: Metalworker now pattern maker in Albury.
Peter Robinson: Draftsman now self employed draftsman.
Ken Harvey: Factory. Works for Lavenco in Dallinger Industrial Estate.
Anthony Labrozzi: Ran ATA USA.
Roy Laughead: Now in charge of operations ATA USA.
Evelyn M. Takach: ATA USA Secretary.
Freddy Brewer: Ran ATA UK.
John Bradshaw: Audio-Visual Consultant, ATA UK.
Andrew Clark: ATA UK Technician.
Len Roberts: ATA UK Technician.
John Kennelly: Old school friend of LCK. Allegedly bought ATA for $M2.4 and sold it 18 months later for $M24. Lives in Orlando, USA.
Many "mental pictures" are in this reconstruct, many, many names not surfacing from this reconstruct.......
(If you are not on this list I apologise. If you can think of names missed or erroneous please advise.)
"Stuck in a 'Moment.""
| The Start | UK Office | Albury Factory |
| Post Iran days | Receiver Cometh | Belvis days |
| HUB days | DART days | ADI days |
| NEW days | The PEOPLE | EXIT |
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