Sidchrome

Mm-hmm.

And, uh, my mother took me over to an interview, uh, at Sidchrome in Heidelberg.

And, uh, the personnel manager said to me, "Oh look, we don't have any, any, uh, electrical apprenticeships because, uh, one company went broke and we're gonna s- get a second-year apprentice, so the only one we've got is tool making or fitting and turning apprenticeship." And my mother said, "He'll take it."

[laughs] Yeah.

Mm

... out of the, out of the lathe pump and all that sort of thing, and then bits and pieces missing all over the place.

And I thought, "Nup." 60 meters down the road [laughs] from Sidchrome.

In those days, you could, you know, if you, if you finished-