Training with the 'B' team ...

摘要

As one 'old timer' testifies, entry qualifications into one of carmaking's most iconic brands are much tougher now than in his day. In 1980, 16-year-old Nigel Lofkin left school and started as an apprentice at the Rolls-Royce Bentley factory. Nigel was a Crewe lad, as were all the teenagers starting with him, and they earned ￡33 a week, "It was a local business," recalled Nigel. "The man who taught me milling grew up in the same street as me. That's how it was. We went round the different sections in the first year, to give us a flavour of all the trades in the company."