My Apprenticeship at Autowrappers (By Kelvin Woodard)
Below are the initial documents that Kelvin Woodard received when he joined the Autowrappers workforce as an apprentice at the Edward St Factory, They are a great insight to the process of starting at an engineering company in Norwich during the early 60s From Kelvin. I was clearing a drawer out and came across the the letters below . You could say that it is a historical document!
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This is a picture of me taken by the Eastern Evening News in the machine shop at the Norwich City College. This would have probably have been 1965/66. Philip White’s head can just be seen over the top of the mill.
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The next two documents below are the list of people who put into my “getting married” collection in November 1971. Gives a good indication of the numbers of employees in the machine and assembly shops. (Not to say that everybody put in!).
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Below is another letter that would have gone with the one I sent to you earlier. S. Flowerdew was Sybil Flowerdew and she was also Frank Salt’s (MD at that time) secretary as well.
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And lastly is a copy of my apprenticeship deed.
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