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Audrey worked at Avro when she was 16/17 years old. Avro was where the current Leeds/Bradford Airport is and was a aeroplane building factory during WW2. Avro was hidden undergound to fox the enemy and it was covered with grass and designed to look like a farm. A person was employed every day to go out and move around the fake sheep and cows so that it would look like they were real and moving from one position to another. Audrey had decided to go herself and was not enlisted to do it as alot of other workers were. The other employment options were not to her liking. She had worked for the Co-op prior to this but they had to pull the carts round themselves without horses and the shafts and the carts were a bit much for someone who was and still is quite a petite lady. Women were not paid the same as men either at the dairy so though she did a similar job to that of her father he took home more money than her.
Avro was a big assembly plant where the planes were constructed from the parts. Audrey worked in the stores and had to go and get the specific store required when someone cam along with their requisition. Some of the parts were huge and a man went and got those. Audrey worked there for a year because the paint spraying which was next door to the stores was slowing poisoning her and after the year the doctor told her she had to leave. While she was there she worked a sixty hour week for thiry-five shillings a week, about 拢1.30 today.

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