Cheers! We're having a great time.

That seems to be the message from these young men, who were attending the annual apprentices' dinners in Oxford in the early 1960s.

Apprentices from Morris Radiators in North Oxford — 'The Rads' — and other firms got together for a night out every year.

Note the dress — no casual wear, suits and ties were the order of the day.

The pictures, which are thought to have been taken on different occasions, were brought to Newspaper House by David Neve, who was an apprentice sheet metal worker at Radiators at the time.

He can't remember where the dinners were held, but recalls the names of some of his former colleagues — Dick Busby, George Reszeter and Peter May.

Mr Neve left Oxford in 1966, moved abroad, worked in the aircraft industry and now lives in Luxembourg.

The Radiators' factory off Woodstock Road supplied a range of parts for cars built at Cowley and provided work for and supported thousands of families for 75 years.

It began life in 1919 when William Morris, later Lord Nuffield, creator of the Cowley car industry, asked the Doherty Motor Company, of Coventry to start a radiator factory in Oxford.

A site in Osberton Road, Summertown — a former roller skating rink and bus depot — was chosen.

William Morris bought the firm in 1923 and two years later, started work on the former brickworks site in Woodstock Road that it occupied until it closed in 2001. Homes have now been built on the site.

Any more names to add to those we already know?