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Women in the workplace
Hannah Nobbs joined Westland as a Graduate Engineer and is one of only a few women engineers at the Yeovil factory
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Hannah Nobbs joined Westland as a Graduate Engineer and remembers her first day working at the Yeovil factory
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June Coleman was Manager of the Travel Department and remembers when women were in a minority at Westland
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June Coleman was Manager of the Travel Department at Westland and remembers her first day working at the Yeovil factory
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Millie Beale worked as a cleaner at Westland in the department that built the Apache
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Mini Ostler started working at Westland when she was 17 yrs old
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Mini Ostler worked at Westland during WW2 re-building Lysanders
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Mini Ostler worked at Westland in the 1930's and then again during WW2
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Mini Ostler worked at Westlands during WW2 and remembers when the factory was bombed
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Norman Pilton remembers the role of women working at Westland during WW2
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Pat Proctor and Pamela Mead were employed as medical nurses by Westland and ran the medical centre for 28 yrs
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Val Edmunds is a Performance Engineer at Westland and describes the department she works in
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Val Edmunds is a Performance Engineer at Westland and remembers being interviewed for her job
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Val Edmunds is a Performance Engineer at Westland and remembers going on strike
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Val Edmunds was a Performance Engineer at Westland and remembers what the Yeovil factory was like when she started working there
https://www.westland100.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Val-Edmonds-early-memories-of-Westland.mp3
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Women in the workplace
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Aircraft types
World War 1: the beginning
The interwar and experimental age
World War 11: wartime production
1950 to 2015
World Helicopter Speed Record
Canteen
Health and Safety
Wages
Computerisation
Hendford Halt
Progress chasers
VH 71 American Presidential Helicopter
Apprentices
Westland 'shadow' factories
Crash landings
Sport and leisure
Getting to work and leaving work
Staff and manual
Blade shop
Royal visits
Petter family
Harald Penrose
WG30
Falklands war
Diversification
No Joke Working at Westland