Working on the Lines

"You used to put one sweet in all day, all day, all day — in a certain compartment in the vacuum formed trays — and that was all they did, you know, just put the one sweet in, one sweet in all the time and it, er — which is still — I don't think anybody was really unhappy there — at least I wasn't, no, no…" (Alice)

While men mixed the chocolate and moved products around the factory, women worked mainly on the conveyors. As Lily remembered their work included enrobing (covering the sweets with chocolate), piping patterns onto individual chocolates, and packing these chocolates into the chocolate boxes. Other women would be serving the line with sweets, by bringing over full trays of chocolates, then taking off the empty trays.

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