Above: 1964; The building on the left of the picture is the Heavy Fabrication Department. The building in the centre foreground accommodated the Tool Room Drawing Office, Tool Room Workshop, Garage Equipment Installation and Service Departments. The open yard on the far right of the photograph was part of the factory buildings and Works Maintenance Department. Below: Not long after Bill arrived at Tecalemit, as a young apprentice, the factory had a visit from the BBC’s popular touring radio variety programme, Worker’s Playtime. Broadcast three times a week, at lunch time, from a ‘factory canteen somewhere in England,’ the show had started as a wartime morale-boosting endeavour in 1941, but, in the event, carried on going until 1964. The show was compered throughout by Bill Gates, who would conclude every broadcast with the cheery words ‘Good luck, all workers.’
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