AN INFORMAL LOOK BACK AT CJS ACTIVITIES OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS

Pictures of the drawing office

Prestigious or noteworthy projects

• Power stations
• Car plants
• Steelworks
• Airports           
• Mansion houses & listed buildings
• Wolves FC Molineux stand         
• Road bridges over railway lines, including Metz Way, Gloucester

Unusual jobs

• Power operated leather punch
• Support steel for organ at church in Tetbury
• Rotating neon sign for “Super Noodles” restaurant
• Front end attachments for road sweeper vehicles
• Nozzle for filling Calippo containers
• Arrangements of garden paving stones
• Rotating blender for mixing powder

Largest products

• Stacker reclaimer machines
• Shiploaders
• ½ mile long steel processing line

Smallest products

• Numerous “widgets” and small sensing devices
• Babies dummy and other medical components

Longest contract

• Materials handling scheme at Gunawan steelworks, Malaysia;
  (2 years duration 1996 to 1998, approx 30 personnel)

Shortest contract

• Tweaks to existing drawings, 1 man for less than 1 hour.

Countries where CJS designs have been built or installed

• United Kingdom, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Eire, Egypt, France, Ghana, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Malaysia, Qatar, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, USA, Zimbabwe

Successes

• Increasing the number of clients & growing the business.
• Continual investment in latest software to improve the service given to clients.

Major challenges

• Overcoming cash flow problem due to sudden stop (& delayed payments) on large project which had the majority of staff working on it.
• The nationwide shortage of technical staff with relevant industrial experience.

Where are they now? - Pictures of the company founders, all now retired

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