NextBackI worked for Royal Enfield in Redditch for a year in 1965. First of all I was in the Post Room with my friends Joanna and Enid. There was a lady there called Barbara who dealt with the post from the Service Department. Miss Adamson.,whom everyone called Miss A. Each morning, we had to take the post round every morning to the different departments. Miss Adamson was on holiday one day when a telegram came through from India. I had to write it down in longhand and then type it out. It was one-and-a-half A4 pages.
One of our jobs in the Post Room was to go to the Main Post Office in the Town Centre to fetch some ordinary stamps and we always asked in the commissionaire at the gate wanted anything whilst we were out.
Then I was moved to the Service Department as Office Junior under Mr Spencer. He was an important man and a town councillor. I had to type out the orders for the Warehouse and then give them to the packers in that department so they could send them out to the customers. I worked with two ladies Nancy and Mary.
Royal Enfield really looked after their Juniors. We could have half price meals and at 11 o’clock every morning we could go to the canteen for our milky coffee. We were sent for a thorough medical exam twice a year.
I met Gilbert Baker, Geoff Duke and Richard Mountford. There’s a junior motor bike on the Isle of Man and that belonged to Richard Mountford.
The Enfield Diesel engine was very popular. That went to Westbury-
