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TED RETIRED FROM VAUXHALL MOTOR'S LUTON IN APRIL 1967.
This acknowledgment was reported in the May Edition of The Vauxhall Mirror. His nickname at Vauxhall was Jerry.
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WORKED ON ILL-FATED AIRSHIP.
From ships to aircraft to cars are the brief steps of E.E. "Jerry" Wenn's career. Born at Chatham Kent one of seven children. he worked in the local dockyard after leaving school at 14. After the first war he joined Short Bros; the aircraft company as a sheet metal worker. He worked on the first all-metal plane which was built there, the Singapore Flying Boat. From there he went to Cardington and worked on the ill-fated R.101 airship which crashed on a hillside in France. He started work at Vauxhall in the Press Shop under Albert Bourn and stayed 34 years. His last few years until retirement were in the Body Shop. By coincidence it was 25 years ago in April, 1942, that Jerry was featured in the Mirror with a money-box. This home-made copper money-box hadn't been opened for over four years and although it was full of silver even Jerry did not know how much it held. A guessing competition as part of Luton's Warship Week raised £37-10s-9d and the £31 the box was found to contain, swelled area 5's total savings. |
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This Photo is R. 101 Airship at Cardington, England
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101 WORKERS
TED WENN back row second from right.
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