I'm fairly sure its a Fitzgerald that is up near haydock island as well.
@phil d ?
They've moved to Sutton now, other side of town, I used to use a load of their gear years ago, it was cheaper than a lot of the other stuff, but still decent, I used some fairly recently and it had really gone downhill.
I remember one job we were on and we fitted hundreds of a new fitting that had just come out at the time, the Thorn "pop" pack, they were brilliant, you attached a back plate to your ceiling or conduit boxes, it had a connector block in it, the fitting then attached to this with 2 clips, it was a bit like an ordinary fitting turned around. Instead of the fitting going up, then attaching the cover, the "cover" was on the back, and that went up first. We thought these were great, especially when you were fitting 30 or 40 a day, no trying to hold a 6' twin fitting with one hand and screw it to the ceiling with the other.
It was during this job that I had a bit of brain fade, it was quite funny but the boss wasn't impressed.
There was a very high room that had about 30 of these fittings in, the back plates had been fitted, all that was needed was to clip the fittings on and fit the lamps. As I had been on a particularly difficult job for the last week, it was given to me as a way of having a rest, I had a scissor lift with a load of fittings and tubes in and started at one end of the room. attach the fitting, remove tubes from cardboard sleeves, throw sleeves over the side and fit the tubes.
I'd fitted about 10, then something went wrong, I attached the fitting, unpacked the tubes,threw them over the side! and attempted to install the cardboard sleeves, I then threw the sleeves over the side and repeated the process, I must have bust about half a dozen tubes before I realised my mistake.
