"So when you see somebody with a sheepskin coat and you see it looks like velvet, that’s what we created."

Everyday – and this is not being big headed – but I used to go home proud that I’d got through it, you know. I didn’t moan and groan ‘cos I knew somebody else’d take it.
_{[Terry, Baily’s]}

It was my first job and it opened me to a whole new world, dealing with people all over the place, using my languages, doing French and German shorthand, with the two export managers. There were a lot of customers: you wrote letters to customers, there was no telephone, no mobiles and things.
_{[Jackie, Morlands and Baily’s]}

You wouldn’t think, well they went in with all this fat on, and three or four times you put the thing through the machine, it come out silky smooth. It was beautiful.
_{[Terry, Baily’s]}

Oh yeah, it was good. In those days, those days, you had a job, you were willing to work for a job.
_{[Reg, Morlands]}

It was the fact you had a job, you did your job as best as you could.
_{[Julia, Morlands]}

Sawdust seasoning was more or less like a boy’s job. When you came from school, you had a couple years if you come there, you came, and then you went on to more of a man’s job.
_{[Steve, Morlands]}

We just kept ourselves to ourselves really, but we all knew what we were doing – the aim and the end product, you know.
_{[Terry, Baily’s]}