Res.4.17 Male resident, 36 yrs, married, corporation tenant, male interviewer, 8 October 1961

INTVEE grew up on a farm before moving with his family to Wardieburn at the age on nine. He left school at 14 and had various jobs in cinemas and at the North British Rubber Works. At 18 he joined the navy. He spent seven days leave in Philadelphia and remembers going round Gimball Brothers' Store which had one whole floor laid out with electric trains, twice the size of Woolworths in Princes Street. He now works at the Wireworks, he likes the job but not the people, his truck turned over recently and no one came to help him lift it. He is a member of the Transport and General Workers Union. The AEU does most of the organising in the Wireworks and there is also a craft union which organises the weavers of the wire cloth which is the main product of the factory. The works makes its own wire, starting with copper and drawing it down from half inch to 32 gauge which they then weave into wire cloth used in paper manufacture. It's exported all over the world. He has a car which is his main hobby, he keeps it in garages at the back of the shops on East Granton Road, it's an open garage with about 11 cars and there is plenty space to work. He does the car up every year before they go on holiday; they go to stay with family in England. He is painting the hall but it plays up his peptic ulcer for which he has been put on a milk diet. At the end of the interview he tells his children to go and wash their faces and put on their pyjamas for bedtime. INTVER describes the living room as "an untidy working-class room with the remains of supper on the table" and INTVEE as a "mild, unassuming, unaspiring man".