The Drawing Office - Pen and Ink to Computer Aided Design

Make sure your volume is on: "...they sent me off to the training school in Apsley Road..."

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‘I wrote to what was then Bristol Aircraft Limited, and asked if I could have a job in the Drawing office. So I had an interview, and they sent me off to the training school in Apsley Road, eight weeks, and that was quite nice, I quite enjoyed that experience, and came back, and I was interviewed for a job in Full Scale Layout. Full Scale Layout is a place where you take a drawing and you have to draw it on a template in full scale, and you had to be accurate because that template would be a pattern for the Fitting Shop. They would get a print of that, and they would actually, literally cut that out, and that would be the aircraft part.’

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