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Celebratory Painting presented to Mayor
Hartlepool Enterprise
Hartlepool’s longest established precision engineers, J.J. Hardy and Sons Ltd, has celebrated the 150th anniversary of its creation by commissioning a unique limited edition oil painting entitled “The Way We Were”, depicting the company’s headquarters in Edwardian days.
A signed copy of the painting was presented to the Elected Mayor of Hartlepool, Stuart Drummond, by J.J. Hardy Managing Director Andrew Pailor at a special ceremony at Hartlepool Enterprise Centre in February. The Mayor paid tribute to the company’s outstanding contribution to the industrial and economic well-being of Hartlepool over the years and to the employment of local people. The artwork will be hung permanently in the renovated Long Gallery at Hartlepool’s Civic Centre.
Painted by John Austin FGRA, the UK’s top rail artist, “The Way We Were” highlights the company’s strong links with the rail industry by featuring rolling stock passing J.J. Hardy’s former premises at Throston Bridge. The painting is historically accurate in every way with details of the rolling stock being exactly correct for the very early 1900s.
Always well-known as engineering innovators, the company has evolved into one of the best CNC machine operators in the country. Among its main activities is manufacturing and supplying train parts and spares, and providing an unrivalled service to rail companies and rail networks. It made and supplied parts for the UK’s fastest train, Eurostar.
Andrew Pailor, one of only five men from two families to lead the company as managing director, told assembled guests that generations of workers had contributed to the success of J.J. Hardy, not lest his own father and grandfather who both preceded him as management leaders. The company, he said, was proud of its record of achievement.
Limited editions of “The Way We Were” have gone to J.J. Hardy’s valued customers, plus to the renowned American baseball player James Jerry Hardy of Milwaukee Brewers. In return, America’s J.J. Hardy has autographed and sent the company one of his baseball shirts, sparking off a permanent link between two legends with the same name.
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