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[matchboxmarcel]

Recently I bought 2 nice job adverts to work in the Matchbox factory (June 1974)
This is the better one.
Interesting to know that I paid more for them then what people earned per week then.



marcel

[GHOSTHUNTER]

Excellent find Marcel, just the sort of ephemera I like and great to see confirm what time the late shift finished 9.30pm

Ghosthunter.

[YYS4BOB]

I doubt this is from 1974. Decimalisation was 1971. I started work in 1973 and my first (take home) pay packet as a 1st year apprentice at SEGAS was £14.32p



Note Basic pay of £10.04p for a 40 hour week. The £5 other payment was "London Weighting" as I was training in The Old Kent Road in SE London.

[Idris]

The telephone no. is given as AMH 5533 (AMH being Amhurst telephone exchange). Exchange names were phased out around 1966.

[petethesweet]

Hi Marcel, A great advert, i think the advert would be before 1970, the wages seem very high perhaps because it was in London. My first wage packet in 1965 was £2. 10 shillings minus NI stamp & holiday pay, but you could get into the Winer Gardens for two bob & a pint of mans was one & three. Pete.

[matchboxmarcel]

many thanks for all the great help dating this.
The seller has this and the other 1 (which I will post here after the weekend) dates as June 1974 but that must be wrong.

@Bob. Nice that you kept your 1st papers also. Maybe they come along on Ebay in the future !
I only started t work in 1991 but have the papers.

marcel

[GHOSTHUNTER]

Despite what is written in ink at the bottom of that newspaper cutting, the year is 1960, because of the below...

October 1st was on a Saturday in 1960.
October 5th was on a Wednesday in 1960.

both these dates appearing in the third column about when the evening shift starts.

...and they were still requesting employees in 1969!


Ghosthunter.

[johnboy]

That's a wonderful advert, so many snippets of information. The dates in October also fall in 1966, is that a bit too recent?

[GHOSTHUNTER]

That's a wonderful advert, so many snippets of information. The dates in October also fall in 1966.

They certainly do, but I was going on 1960 because of the company name is presented as...Lesney Products & Company Ltd. Lesney Products moving into the status of a Public Company in September 1960 and the mention of a new factory extension opening shortly which I took as the site for the main factory in Lee Conservancy Rd opened in 1963.

If I have put 4 and 4 together to make 10, I do appologise

Ghosty.

[misterpop]

I would love to know what other stuff they where making there.