Recorded Memories

Ron Massey Interviews. November 2000.

‘They took the first letter of each of their names Ritchsteiger – R and Gildersgame – G and made it Argee Company.
That was way back in the 1920s…’

‘I always had an open door…a constant stream of people would bring in problems…I can’t understand the attitude where
people haven’t got time to do the thing properly…’

‘[Argee after 1985] became a satellite…purely manufacturing [Argee pre 1985] held their own stocks of fabric,
cut their own fabric [after 1985] the work was delivered as ‘cut work’…only machining going on’