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Messrs ISAAC AND UREN (ENGINEERS) Ltd
The Plymouth business house of Messrs Isaac and Uren (Engineers) Ltd, commercial engineers, was located in Sutton Road, Coxside, Plymouth, both before and after the Second World War. It was started in 1920 by Mr Albert Isaac and Mr Richard Uren, both previously engine fitters at the Royal Dockyard, Devonport. They took premises in Sutton Road. At that time their main work was in steam-powered machinery. Their first customer was Messrs W & R Jacob Ltd, the biscuit manufacturers. [1] Mr Albert Isaac was born in Dartmouth in 1882 [2] and married Miss Teresa Edith Morris at Saint Jude's Church in Plymouth on November 18th 1908 [3]. They had two children, Clifford and Jack. Cornishman Mr Richard Uren came from Hayle, where he was born in 1873 [4]. He married Miss Daisy Catherine Jane Ryder at Stoke Damerel Parish Church on July 8th 1899 [3]. Mr Albert Isaac died at his home, number 34 Holland Road, on May 30th 1946 [5]. The funeral service took place at Emmanuel Church. Mr Richard Uren died in 1961 at the age of 88 years [6]. It is not known exactly when control of the business was transferred to Mr Jack Alonso Isaac, the youngest son of Mr Albert Isaac, or whether Mr Richard Uren remained an active member of the business until he passed away in 1961. Mr Jack Isaac had left Sutton Secondary School in February 1935 [7] and ten years later married Miss Cynthia M Keates at Chelmsford in Essex [6]. Either way, the business continued to flourish at Sutton Road until new purpose-built premises were opened in Valley Road at Plympton in June 1970, the same year in which Mrs Teresa Edith Isaac passed away. Seventeen men were employed at the works, many of whom had been with the business for more than twenty years. Messrs W & R Jacob Ltd were the first customers at the new works as well. At the time of the move the sole directors of the Company were Mr and Mrs Isaac and the Works Manager was Mr Edward Montague 'Ted' Bickle, who had served in the Royal Air Force until he joined the firm in 1945. [1] When Mr Jack Alonso Isaac retired he moved to Poole, in Dorset, where he died on June 12th 1992. [7] Mr Edward Montague Bickle, who was a well-known bell-ringer in Devon, died in Plymouth in January 2002. [6] As a private limited company the business passed into non-family hands, a Mr Christopher Arthur Pearn being a director in 1992. It went into receivership on January 17th 2001 and was finally dissolved on April 9th 2007. [8]
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