I was a Student Apprentice 1952-55. This was a sort of up market apprenticeship where one worked for a brief time in virtually every department, works and office.
Planning Dept at Fletch South till 1957, then did two years as Merchant Navy engineer in place of National Service. Back in Planning early 1960, was supposed to become PA to Cliff Swindell, then Production Director at Canley, but the first of the major redundancies took place and got chopped in November 1960. Spent next thirty years in Engineering at Rover.