Olney- Bucks
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Norfolk12
N 52° 09.582 W 000° 42.132
30U E 657172 N 5781290
Signage on old Factory wall,in Midland Road, Olney, now are up- market apartments.
Waymark Code: WM3FAX
Location: United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/28/2008
Views: 8
Lodge Plugs moved into the factory building at the top of Midland Road very early in the war, probably at the beginning of 1940. The factory made sparking plugs for aircraft engines and was a subsidiary of Lodge Plugs in Rugby. The workforce was expected to work shifts. The shift started at 7.00 in the morning and the workers would go home for half an hour at midday; they would go home again for half an hour around 5 o'clock and then return until 7.30 or 8.00 pm at night. There must have been more than 100 women working there, but only about half a dozen men. To get there they used to bike from Brafield, Newport Pagnell and other areas in the district.