Yesterday is over your shoulder.

[Music] all [Music] we all know this man but let's call him Mr anyman he's been sitting at this desk for years and years the salary is not much but it's been a steady peaceful job the trouble is it's a bit too peaceful these days with so many of his friends on War workor all the latest War Mr enman feels out of it all and he wants to be in it but what can he do at home he's a bit of a handyman what can he do the answer is in his own hands if only he realized it oh John you're not a your old Vice again now come on give them all away I on put them all away well at 8:40 next morning he catches his usual train for the city pleas excuse me really the untrained man can help you reserve this country at the same time ony cars punch together out comfort how should complain you got this I think the ever increasing train men you can be one of them R trining does not full details any employment Exchange that's an idea and a few mornings later there's a mysterious bulge in his pocket John dear what have you got there oh nothing look so untiy what will the neighbors [Music] say Harry de you will miss your train don't stand the gate all right dear but he lets the 84 to go without him plucks up courage and calls at the local employment exchange do you know anything about that sort of thing well a you know you mean you repair these well in my spare time oh well and so Mr anyman gets his chance to become a Craftsman The Exchange sends him to one of the government tra training centers he finds himself among a crowd of other chaps all eager to learn their new jobs by the way they're allowed to smoke here whenever they like the first thing he learned is how to use the [Music] calipers and the micrometer and then the haxor and the file thank you it's a bit different from Pain pushing but most of the chaps are doing something very different from their old jobs he was a stage designer he was a clerk in West Africa here's a printer and Another Printer he was a Salesman and this chat was a lady's tayor they all get a money allowance while they're being trained and a free dinner every day boiled beef and carrots my favorite dish the next thing he learned is to set up a job in the LA and do a bit of [Music] turning but it isn't as easy as it looks and it doesn't even look easy to me but after month he begins to get the hang of it I see that's better and more than that they tell him he's got the makings of a good engineer he learns to handle more difficult and complicated tools and he takes a court in arithmetic but this is Mr any man's meat oh me [Music] how's [Music] that and after 3 months of intensive training he's almost as quick on the Practical [Music] side and end is [Music] accurate one more month and this is what they call a six-way piece it's a tricky little job it's got to be right to the 10th of a thousandth of an inch it's the most difficult thing he's attempted yet if he can make it they'll pass him out a capable engineer [Music] It's the final test it's got to fit all six ways and he's made it is that all right oh thank you so much and out into the factory he goes to join in the war effort full of confidence for the job he's been trained to do yesterday is over your shoulder don't turn and say I might have done this I might have done that just throw the thought away face the dawn of a tomorrow with with a smile and come with me don't look over your shoulder pal it's a lovely day today oh I never one of Ernie Bing's M Mr anman [Music] engineer John what will the neighbor say all of the neighbors I'm a British worker now [Music]