REA Bott

[Richard]

I recently went to a R.E.A.Bott reunion in London I was wondering if there would be any intrest in one organised in Scotland or maybe nationally any one intrested contact me and ask anyone you know who worked for R E A Bott

[WebRam]

Great Idea Richard, stick me down on the list

[WebRam]

Info for those not from the UK.

REA.Bott was a UK national service and installation company who went through hard times, was bought over and is not defunct.

You will find Bott engineers all over the UK who talked highly of the company....... and some who don't :)

[chubbs]

worked for botts ,best firm going still miss it now,would be a good ideaI recently went to a R.E.A.Bott reunion in London I was wondering if there would be any intrest in one organised in Scotland or maybe nationally any one intrested contact me and ask anyone you know who worked for R E A Bott

[fowlie]

my old man worked for botts when they first set up in east kilbride i know hed be intrested

[Chiswick]

Started Working for Botts in 1978 out of Wigmore street did the west end with Pat Denning and Bill scotsman lovely breakfast at the Savoy!
Good old days!

[curious08]

Hi,

Hope you dont mind me joining. My granpa used to work for REA Bott Edinburgh. Been thinking a lot about him recently and wondered if anyone remembers him. His name was Michael (mick) Morgan?

Thanks,
K

[coolhibby1875]

rea bott might have been great to work for however they made the worst packs i have had the misfortune of working on!

[spezi]

Hi all

that brings back memorys and mind bogeling facts.
I started work as an apprentice for central distributors which then quickly cahnged to wincanton engineering after this it was called winair which then was later a part of wathes. I left and went to O Gormann / Prestcolds just as they were being thrown together and put together with Hussmanns which caused me to leave again very quickly. Tried my luck at Trembaths but soon changed to R.E.A. Botts where everything seemed to be perfect. As far as I know Botts sold out to General Refrigeration which again got taken over by Wathes and so we are back to the start.

Luckily I had left Botts in the late 80s to go abroud working for Linde and then for York In Germany. Its strange when you think about all these big companies that just dispeared or got taken over. Whose interested can look at the register by companies house !

[tony--1]

I stll have botts packs that i look after sum 20 + yrs old

[coolhibby1875]

i still look after some of there packs now that are 20 year old plus and they are a big bag of junk.

[WebRam]

Hi,

Hope you dont mind me joining. My granpa used to work for REA Bott Edinburgh. Been thinking a lot about him recently and wondered if anyone remembers him. His name was Michael (mick) Morgan?

Thanks,
K

I remember Mick, worked on the service side and played the trumpet I believe :)

[fowlie]

hi curious08
spoke to my old man today as he worked for botts in edinburgh he used to work as an apprentice under your grandad when he worked for lothian refrige,he knew your grandad for about twenty odd years as your grandad was the first to join botts in scotland but kept going back to the mines my dad said as he loved working their

[Silhouette]

I believe Botts were bought out by NRC who then went bust, leaving a lot of disgruntled people! The owner of NRC did not realise the depth of debt he was taking on!!

[coolhibby1875]

i thought nrc were bought by wr or wathes at the time?

[fowlie]

no wr bought the service side as they split the company in two service/install,then as i heard it some big customers pulled the plug on orders and that was it for nrc.the factories shut up and i heard it nearly took down gaurdian controls as well

[Silhouette]

Yep! Gaurdian controls had a big tie up with NRC, we did most of their R&D with them and Tesco. Another good company falls at the behest of the supermarkets!

[coolhibby1875]

again i have to disagree gaurdian controls belong with nrc packs and that is in the past over complicated junk!!!

[Silhouette]

It's only overcomplicated if you don't understand it!!

[coolhibby1875]

very true perhaps i should have used the words not very user friendly.

[supermarketguy]

Hi all,

Bott's were a decent company and looked after their guys.

I worked for their East Kilbride branch fos a couple of years, just after they were taken over by Nrc. :)

[curious08]

I remember Mick, worked on the service side and played the trumpet I believe :)


Thats him!x

[curious08]

hi curious08
spoke to my old man today as he worked for botts in edinburgh he used to work as an apprentice under your grandad when he worked for lothian refrige,he knew your grandad for about twenty odd years as your grandad was the first to join botts in scotland but kept going back to the mines my dad said as he loved working their


Mines?? I thought that was another tall story from my granda, he once told me he won the war from the trenches with a banana skin (threw it over the side, hitler slipped and they all went down like dominos!)!

He said he chopped his nose off with an axe in the mines, stuck it back on with spit!

Haha, nice to see folks remember him!

[eurocooling]

I believe Botts were bought out by NRC who then went bust, leaving a lot of disgruntled people! The owner of NRC did not realise the depth of debt he was taking on!!

hi the owner of Nrc did no what he was taking on he saved a lot of jobs it was the big supermarkets who let him down I was there