ABSTRACT
At 6:30 am on 23 December 1954, Sagrario Mochales, a young woman with a university degree in natural sciences, took the underground to Atocha station in Madrid. There she got on a truck – like the military ones covered in canvas that used to carry soldiers – to go to the factory of the Spanish penicillin-manufacturing firm, CEPA (Compañía Española de Penicilinas y Antibióticos), for her first day of work. Every day, CEPA workers took this transportation, provided by the factory, to go from Atocha to the facilities at Méndez Alvaro, in an industrial neighbourhood in southeast Madrid. After boarding with the help of a small ladder they remained standing for the journey.
