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Dennis the diesel:
When my other half,Beki, left school, she got a job working for the British Hovercraft Corporation, based in East Cowes, here on the Isle of Wight.
Not as an 'Office Girl' but as a Technician Apprentice - did a B.Tec / HTC in mechanical and production engineering - a full 4 year apprenticeship, with day-release at our local tech. college
In the third year she was runner-up in the Technical Directors Cup (at B.H.C.) and in the final year, won the Technical Directors Cup at BHC, and also won the overall Technical Directors Cup from Westland Aerospace in Yeovil.
She also learned to weld - she and her mum(!) replaced the rotten boot floor in an old Mk5 cortina, and a few years ago gave me a hand to swap a 2oo tdi into my off-roader.
She also bought, and fitted, an X-9 winch to her other motor, and on odd occasions, has been known to enter a couple of challenge events and not do too badly either!

SWEETY:
Just wait your Dad will be eating is own words soon when he needs you to fix his car :lol:  :lol:  :lol: I think all women should no the basics :D My 60 year old Mam can rebuild a pinto engine as my Grandad was a mechanic but in them days he said being a mechanic was no job for a woman because of the things that went on in the garage :roll: My 11 year old is straight in if i'm working on my Terrano & she is always asking questions like whats that & whats this :lol: & look Dad my feet touch the pedals now can I have a go at driving her :shock:  :lol:  :lol:

ben_haynes:
No there are Numerous Female Mechanics that i know,

you should be happy with the achievements

and i applaude you for it

when i was an Apprentice Mechanic we got another Apprentice and all the 'Older' mechanics where saying she should not be in the workshop / garage as it was a 'MALE ONLY ENVIRONMENT' which i Completly dissagreed with especially as she is Still working there and is fully Qualified and most of them are gone and were less Qualified than her

Dr Evil:
My wifes rubbish at anything to do with cars and hates landys. Go figure !

TicTac:
thanx everyone, i was beginning to think father was right and i should just stay glued to the kitchen sink!!!!! compared to some of you lot on here i know nothing about landies/mechanics but i want to learn and hopefully one day i get there :wink:  :wink:. Parents at my daughters school/ sons nursery look at me in complete disgust when i turn up to drop off/pick kids up when i dressed in my old clothes after i been working on my car!!! i think its funny!!!! If u not looking like u just stepped off the cover of vogue u r the lowest of the low down there!!! oh well thats me completely up the swanee... still never mind eh..... :D  :D

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