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John Groves
John Groves
John Groves was a Design Engineer at Westland and recalls witnessing the fatal crash of a Wyvern in 1949
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John Groves was a Design Engineer at Westland and worked at the Ilchester factory (so called Westland shadow factory) from 1948 to 1952
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John Groves was a Design Engineer at Westland for almost 50 yrs and remembers how sport played a big part in everyone's life
https://www.westland100.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/John-Groves-sport-and-leisure-club-clip.mp3
John Groves was a Design Engineer at Westland for nearly 50 yrs and remembers how staff and manual employees were treated differently
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John Groves worked as a Design Engineer at Westland for nearly 50 yrs and remembers the rush to get away from the factory at the end of the working day
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John Groves worked as a Design Engineer at Westland for nearly 50 yrs and remembers what the factory was like when he joined
https://www.westland100.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/John-Groves-factory-was-like-when-he-started-1948.mp3
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