Imported historical comment — Philip D W — 2019-12-01 11:19:06
I started my mechanics apprenticeship at Normans ..The Normans family were very good to me as I was a bit of a tearaway to say the least and looking back they could of pulled the plug but never did..The family consisted of BAZIL KEN PETER CAROL YVONNE JOHN BOB MIKE , I also owe a debt to the service manager Roy Yerby who stuck with me when I failed my First lot of Exams..instead of sacking me he put me in for my exams again a few months later and also gave me a load of advice and a kick up the backside of how my future would turn out if my attitude stayed the same ...with all this ringing in my ears and his belief i passed with distinctions in fact as the years went by i never failed an exam with less than a credit ..The polish chap your talking about is in the photo filling the car with fuel..During my years I did nights on the forecourt to top my apprentice wage ...I finished my apprentiship there and was then foreman at Conquest over the road...later I started a very successful Nissan garage that went for many years in the maidenhead area....I'm now retired and living in a beutifull cottage in the country I've also bought my children homes as well....All thanks to the belief the Normans family and Mr Yerby had in me...It was a he'll of a place to work remember a lot of the older blokes there had been through a war, Arthur Daniels "Danny" in the machine shop used to put the fear of god into people but me and him got on so well ,he was the spit of churchill and the advice he used to give me still rings true today...
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