where people would measure something with feet
and the peak of the cap
and say, well, that bracket there,
we were now into engineering that was precise.
Though, definite,
the inspection side of it was immense.
You couldn't really get away with anything
that wasn't absolutely perfect.
Everything was inspected every single stage and more
and more and more until you got the plane working.
We used to measure a job with the peak of a cap.
Dave Chambers was an apprentice technician at the Vulcan Foundry in Lancashire making boilers for railway locomotives. At the age of 17, he was transferred to the British Aircraft Corporation factory at Weybridge in Surrey to work on Britain's supersonic TSR. 2.
Surrey , United Kingdom
| Role Engineer | Age 17 |
