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1950 to 2015
1950 to 2015
Clive Guest was Crew Chief on G-Lynx when it set the World Helicopter Speed Record 11th August 1986
https://www.westland100.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Clive-Guest-clip-G-Lynx-modifications.mp3
Colin Hague was Chief Test pilot at Westland and recalls his first day working at the Yeovil factory
https://www.westland100.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Colin-Hague-My-First-Day-clip.mp3
Geoff Byham was Chief Engineer at Westland and remembers working on the development of the Wildcat
https://www.westland100.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Geoff-Byham-Lynx-to-Wildcat-.mp3
John Groves joined Westland in 1948 as an apprentice Design Engineer and the first helicopter he worked on was the Wyvern
https://www.westland100.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/John-Groves-Wyvern-clip.mp3
June Coleman was Manager of the Travel Department and remembers when women were in a minority at Westland
https://www.westland100.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/June-Coleman-5222-women-in-the-work-place-.mp3
Norman Pilton built gear boxes at Westland and remembers when the factory had its own railway
https://www.westland100.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Norman-Pilton-4122-Hendford-Halt-Westlands-own-railway.mp3
Paul Murley joined Westland in 1945 as an Apprentice Engineer straight from school and rose to the position of Engineering Services Manager completing 44 yrs service. One of his most memorable moments was watching the first test flight of the EH101
https://www.westland100.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Paul-Murley-EH101-first-flight-Lynx-prototypes-.mp3
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Westland Affair
Test pilots
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Women in the workplace
How I did my job
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