When Steve Phillips started as a 15-year-old apprentice with a
Birmingham engineering company in 1961, the Beatles were still the
Quarrymen and a pint of mild cost one shilling and threepence. Five
years of dirt and grind, legpulls, laughter and sheer hard graft
later, Steve was a skilled turner and fitter, schooled the
old-fashioned way by senior craftsmen who knew how to turn a screw,
mill a die or grind a component to half a thousandth of an inch
using manually-controlled machine tools, a micrometer and the skill
in their fingers. He had also found the time - and saved the money
- to marry his teenage sweetheart and buy a house. Steve went on to
a varied and successful career in the UK manufacturing industry.
Half a century on, now retired and living in Cyprus, he looks back
on an era before computers and CNC machines, when Birmingham and
its factories were the backbone of industrial Britain and families
and workmates stuck together. Ten bob an hour is a fascinating
portrait of an era long gone.
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