I worked at Small and Parker’s for a short time in the mid 60s in the stores serving the MBL (Moulded Brake Linings) and the ABL (Asbestos Brake Linings). Very good staff benefits, but no suggestion at that time of the danger associated with asbestos usage that was going to become very public a few years later!
My main memory, though, is (as a virtual schoolboy) of of the mass charge for the buses at the end of the day In my naivety I really couldn’t understand how people could hate work that much.