Paine, Randall 1910 - 2006

Randall Paine was born in Failsworth in 1910. He attended Hulme Grammar School, Oldham. On leaving school, he worked for John Brewer and later became a partner in Brewer & Paine, Textile Designers. The partnership was dissolved in 1939. Paine was conscripted to war work as stores manager at the Avro factory in Chadderton. He was later transferred to the Avro factory at Yeadon, near Leeds. At the end of the war, he worked for Hunslet Engine Co. in Leeds as stores manager, setting up the first computerised stock system for the company. He died in 2006.