Christmas Holidays.       Deighton Manufacturing Director John Wade chose to holiday in Australia for the 2007 Christmas break.
John's been to Australia pursuing his passion sport of cricket on several prior Christmas seasons. However, 2007 saw John and close companion soaking up the Sydney sunshine and enjoying the new year Sydney Harbour fireworks display in pure holiday mode this time.
Our photo shows John visiting the Australian Reptile Park with friends, situated an hours drive to Sydney's north. "I don't mind patting them as long as they're dead" was John's response to making friends with the snakes, crocodiles and many dangerous spiders at the park.
Its hard to resist patting the kangaroos or koala's though John discovered.
John returned to a snowy and cold England sporting an Australian summer tan.

Company Appointments

The new year has seen the following appointments been made within the company.

Darren McGeachy has been promoted to the position of Production Manager within the company. Darren will be responsible for the planning and organisation of the production facility at Deighton Manufacturing in an effort to further improve the company’s manufacturing output. This comes in the light of the organisation’s continually increasing order book and is seen as a further step in the development of the business.

Andrew Linton has been appointed as Design Engineer in the design and development department. This new appointment is to increase design resource in the company and ensure that Deighton Manufacturing continues to be a flexible, customer focussed company, developing innovative new processing machinery for the food industry.

Deighton Winter Golf Tournament 2007

On December 19^th 2007, 16 of the company’s top golfers gathered on a cold, damp day to partake in the prestigious Deighton Winter Championship. After a hearty breakfast of bacon sandwiches and coffee, the athletes proceeded to the first tee to take on the 6000 yard winter course at Rudding Park. Despite the conditions the standard of play was extremely high, the crowds gasping in awe at some of the shots produced by the entrants.

After an exhilarating day the final scores were in with Ian Royston taking the title with an astounding score of 47 points. John Wade, playing some unusually good golf, came in second with a personal best of 44 points, with Dave Bradey taking third place on 42 points.

The longest drive competition was won by the big hitting Phil Ashcroft with Paul Cank taking the nearest the pin competition with a near hole in one. Bringing up the rear and winner of the coveted wooden spoon was Phil Dickinson.