SIR – I worked in the AVRO building at the former Yeadon Airport in 1952.

I used to get the bus at 6.30am at the top of Pullan Avenue and get off just across the road from the AVRO building and you had to clock in, but it was such a long building that if you didn’t clock in before 7.30am you got money taken out of your wage, so a few of us who couldn’t make it had friends to clock on for us.

My job at AVRO was checking and packing uniforms for the Army and RAF overseas. The uniforms consisted of shorts, shirts and overcoats.

I used to put them in the baling machine with brown paper round them and sew them by hand, and the machine came down to finish them off into a nice square, and then they were sent of to our men overseas. I met some good friends up at AVRO.

I Rhodes, Oxford Road, Undercliffe