When I left school in July 1965 I was fortunate to get a Birfield Apprenticeship with Salisbury Transmission Ltd in Witton, but I ended up with a GKN Apprenticeship Completion Certificate - how so? Older threaders may remember the Birfield Group was a sizeable automotive group of companies, notably including Forgings & Presswork, Hardy Spicer and Salisbury Transmission in Birmingham and Laycock Engineering in Sheffield (The group name Birfield was an amalgam of the first companies in the group from Birmingham (Bir) and Sheffield (field)), as big as the group was, it was taken over by the even bigger GKN Group.
So is Salisbury Transmission Ltd still there? Don't know for sure, it's certainly had at least one change of name since my time there.
Peg.