Trafford Park
Lancashire Dynamo mobile engineering team, 1981. R Dewhurst is second from the right.
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Mr R Dewhurst - First Day At WorkBorn 1924. Interviewed 1989 - T024  Click here to listen to this extract in RealAudio format.I always remember me first day. I went in a pair of bib and overalls, but I had a pair of shorts on underneath, and I was a bit worried being found out with shorts, because in them days you didn't get long trousers until you were about fourteen. I remember going in the fitting shop, and the foreman - you had to call your foreman "Mister", it was always "Sir". Then you was taken round the whole factory, and you were shown the first aid room, stores, and everything. And you was frightened : "How'm I going to remember all this?" Then, when you come back, the charge hand says "Have you took him all round?" - he says, "Yeah" - he said "Do you know where the capstan department is?" So I says "Yes", and I didn't. He says "Right, go there, ask for the charge hand" - and he said some words which are quite simple to me, now, but then it was a dread - "Ten A10 non-driving end inner cap. Has he got any, and get some." I had to remember all that, and I walked off. He met me half-way and he come and took me. I was trying to think of all this that I had to say you know. |