2-362-315 - Worldwide Photography/Heritage-Images

A yardsman stacking pallets of bricks, Whitwick Brickworks, Coalville, Leicestershire, 1963. Stacking pallets of bricks with a Coventry Climax forklift truck. The company first produced forklifts in 1946 with the introduction of the ET199. The photograph was taken in the same year that the company was bought by Jaguar, which was subsequently absorbed into the British Leyland Corporation. By the late 1980s Kalmar Industries had acquired the forklift truck interests of Coventry Climax and it was trading as Kalmar Climax.