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With Tommy Smith at Martin Near Lincoln.
(Picture above).
His new tyres are on the right of the picture ready to be
fitted and replacing his own Goodyear Tyres. I was driving the
delivery lorry for these excursions!
Stan, (right) our Staff Lincolnshire Field technical engineer
and good friend, with Ron Knight at Great Casterton.
This was all before the original oil crisis in the very early
1970’s when ‘real inflation’ began.
Very good wages at this time remember were in the region
of £25 to £30 per week and petrol was still just something over
five shillings a gallon.
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