Sixty-five delegates from BP companies and associates in the UK, Australia, Denmark, Germany and Sweden and from Corpoven Venezuela met at Eastbourne for the Group's first international telecommunications seminar.
The three-day event, under the title Recent developments in telecommunications, covered topics including telephone, radio, satellite and data systems, fibre optics technology and underwater acoustics.
It was organised by Central Engineering in conjunction with Computing and Information Processing under the auspices of Information Systems Administration.
"The purpose of the seminar was to discuss the wealth of recent developments in telecommunications and pool information and ideas to aid future planning," Mike Usher, London-based telecommunciations manager, told BP Shield.
The big white dome? I think it was an early form of satellite communications link - how would you like that on the house picking up Sky?
So many people involved in telecoms! It was the first and only conference of its type (I think).
1 - Roger Emberson?
2. Russell Whitworth
3 - Roger Burbery
4 - Mike Chrystall (believe killed in air crash)
5. John Melton
6. David Eggleton
11. Dave Moore
13. Alan ?
16. David Hamer
17. Martin Prentice
18 - Charles Jewell????
21. Tony Dillon
24. Paul Hendrix
31 - Bob Holroyd?
35 - David Carver
36. Derek Rodgers
38. David Coustik
44. Simon Hughes
45. John Robson
47. David Thorn (me)
48. Mike Burgess
49. Steve Tipton
51 - Len Rideout
52. Ray Warrington
57. Juergen Buernsachs
61. Bob Montgomery
No 2 is Russell Whitworth
ReplyDeleteI know nos. 5 and 45 but their names won't come to me just yet!
Geoff Christmas
No 5: John Melton
ReplyDeleteI recognise three more, but names escape me:
61: Bob ?, from Sunbury
41: my Scottish boss when I was on secondment at Dyce, telecoms development.
38: David ?, a Scottish colleague in Dyce, also in telecoms development.
Geoff Christmas
Feeding these in as I remember them:
ReplyDelete45 John Robson
48 Dave Coustick (Dyce)
Geoff Christmas
Thanks for the updates Geoff - added in the names that I can. No. 48 for Dave Coustick isn't right. Where you there Geoff? I do recall your name. Thx again David
ReplyDeleteI've got a copy of that photo somewhere.
ReplyDelete6 - David Eggleton (?). He was the big boss - head of IS. About the only time I ever spoke to him was that very morning, when we shared a table at breakfast. He was complaining that the company mileage allowance didn't quite cover the fuel costs of his company Jaguar XJS. At that time I couldn't even afford to run a car, so I thought his conversation was in pretty poor taste! Clearly left a lasting impression on me.
21 - Tony Dillon. My boss at one time.
24 - should be able to get this one, as he was in the next cubicle to me for a year or so... damn...
45 - John someone. Another of my bosses.
Remarkable that there is only one woman present!
Perhaps it is about time to organise the second international telecommunications seminar.
- Russell Whitworth (sent here by Geoff)
45 - John Robson - just realised you've already got him!
ReplyDelete24 - Paul Hendrix... I really should have read the list more carefully before adding mine!
ReplyDeleteThanks to Russell for passing on a few more names. We'll soon have a full set!30 years on now - I wonder how many have passed on? or where they are now? Such a long time ago!!!
ReplyDelete11 - David (Dave) Moore, last heard of here:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/networking/2006/03/21/westminster-businesses-get-wimax-broadband-39258541/
1 - Roger Emberson?
ReplyDelete3 - Roger Burbery
4 - Mike Chrystall (believe killed in air crash)
18 - Charles Jewell????
31 - Bob Holroyd?
35 - David Carver
51 - Len Rideout
61 - Bob Montgomery
Thanks to Kelvin for some more updates to this list.
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ReplyDeleteKelvin - good to hear from you!
ReplyDeleteI didn't spot Mike Chrystall standing in the shadow there - but it is definitely him. We remained friends and occasionally met right up until his untimely death a few years ago. He did indeed die in an air accident. He had become an aerobatics instructor, and died at the controls, along with his pupil, having failed to pull out of a demonstration stall spin.