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 You could say that it is a historical document!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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