Hi Ron I don't have any history of the Auto, as we knew it, except that it was originally known as the "Strowger Works" and this was the name up over the main Edge Lane Gate - a complete mystery to me as a child, but someone explained it a bit later. Most of my family worked there in all sorts of jobs, and I worked there myself from 1954 to 1957 as a shorthand typist. Perhaps our dads met at Dunkirk - mine in the Navy, bringing troops ashore, yours in the Army, "fighting them on the beaches"! Marged Both my parents worked at the "Automatic Telephone Company" in Edge Lane, both before and after the War, Mum was an air-raid nurse in Liverpool throughout the war while Dad was in the Army doing convoy duty up and down England and also in France - Dunkirk. While home on leave I remember dad wrapping my up in the blanket off my bed and throwing my over his shoulder like Father Christmas with his presents, but I was terrified of the noise the bombs where making even when we got to an air-raid shelter I must of been only two years old. I was born 08-01-1939. It was while working at the "Automatic Telephone Company"that my parents met one another. Have you got any history on the "Automatic Telephone Company"?