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Unfortunately, they had decided there was no time for
normal communications and all staff and company records
including personal effects were destroyed at the same time!

BACK TO THE INTERVIEW
The interview only took an hour or so. I was asked
questions which I could reply to with complete confidence and
others to which I had no real answer but bluffed my way
through. The result was positive. “If Fred wants you then I
guess we had better let him have you!”
Elation and excitement were unbounded. I found a call box
and telephoned him immediately to give him my profound
thanks.
We had met for the first time back in 1965 when I had
applied to a Daily Telegraph advertisement for salesmen for
Firestone. Fred Popham had been my first contact with the
company and we had kept in touch all that time.
Now was to begin a firm friendship and working
relationship which continued unchanged until the very day he
died.
Needless to say I waited until I had the Firestone letter in
my pocket before informing my boss William that I was going
to leave him.
My last memory of “the garage” was William gnashing his
teeth at the thought of all he had supposedly spent on me over
the last six months and tearing more from his latest pair of
socks.

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