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As this is a new part of the forum I was just wondering what was your first job when you left school?
---For me at 14 1/2 years old I started work at a garage R. G. Hodges & son Rainham Mark Gillingham Kent as an apprentice diesel fitter I worked on Leyland comet's, AEC Matadors, Albion's, Beford S types, Dennis with a gate change box, Scammel which also had a gate change box and of course Roots two stroke (bloody noisy) Foden's and Erf's--Plus lots of other strange trucks from the 40's--50's and 60's. I worked for 45 hours a week for £2.3s 2d. that was the going rate then for an apprentice. When I was 15 1/2 I was driving 8 wheelers (we had a very large lorry park at the back) the drivers who used to park there (Harold wood Tankers) used to be paid 5 shillings a week to clean there tankers. I used to do there job for 2s 6d but I also used to be able to drive there tankers and park them up after I had washed the tanker's in my lunchtime. To be honest I would have washed them for nothing just to be able to drive them. Alas I never finished my apprentiship as at nearly 18 and still only earning £3 10s 6d I only had the cloth's that I worked in and by that time I was walking to work nearly 3 1/2 miles and as I never had enough money after I paid my mum for my keep and of course this was the swinging 60's at 18 years old I found through an injury at work that although my dear father had signed all the indentures. I still was not an apprentice because the owner had not signed me up to the apprentice scheme....I then went to work in a paper mill but thats another story!! What's your's???
bye for now
freddie
As this is a new part of the forum I was just wondering what was your first job when you left school?
---For me at 14 1/2 years old I started work at a garage R. G. Hodges & son Rainham Mark Gillingham Kent as an apprentice diesel fitter I worked on Leyland comet's, AEC Matadors, Albion's, Beford S types, Dennis with a gate change box, Scammel which also had a gate change box and of course Roots two stroke (bloody noisy) Foden's and Erf's--Plus lots of other strange trucks from the 40's--50's and 60's. I worked for 45 hours a week for £2.3s 2d. that was the going rate then for an apprentice. When I was 15 1/2 I was driving 8 wheelers (we had a very large lorry park at the back) the drivers who used to park there (Harold wood Tankers) used to be paid 5 shillings a week to clean there tankers. I used to do there job for 2s 6d but I also used to be able to drive there tankers and park them up after I had washed the tanker's in my lunchtime. To be honest I would have washed them for nothing just to be able to drive them. Alas I never finished my apprentiship as at nearly 18 and still only earning £3 10s 6d I only had the cloth's that I worked in and by that time I was walking to work nearly 3 1/2 miles and as I never had enough money after I paid my mum for my keep and of course this was the swinging 60's at 18 years old I found through an injury at work that although my dear father had signed all the indentures. I still was not an apprentice because the owner had not signed me up to the apprentice scheme....I then went to work in a paper mill but thats another story!! What's your's???bye for now
freddie
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