1980, Shanghai

Many years ago, I was General Manager of a factory making the DHL1000 word processor for DHL's subsidiary Rapiddata.  Our manufacturing manager said that he had given copies of the drawings of the metal casing to a factory in Shanghai and asked if I would like to go to see two sample cases they had made with a view to lower cost manufacture. 
I agreed and we flew up together at a time when China, though post-Mao, was still a poor country and still looked very traditionally communist, with blue Mao suits and bicycles everywhere.

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Shanghai 1980 e.jpg; ; ©ROY_GRUBB

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Reading the newspaper; Shanghai 1980 f.jpg; ; ©ROY_GRUBB

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Looking down from the Jing Jiang Hotel; The constant tintinabulation of bicycle bells. The very few cars cars beeped their horns all the time as they drove along.; Shanghai 1980 from Jing Jiang Hotel.jpg; ; ©ROY_GRUBB

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Shanghai 1980 b former Wing On Dept Store c.jpg; ; ©ROY_GRUBB

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A famous tea-house; Revisited 30 years later it looked much brighter - as did the clothes of passers-by.; Shanghai 1980 d.jpg; ; ©ROY_GRUBB

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MAINLAND CHINA - North, South, East, West - 1980, Shanghai

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