gnasty gnome:
During the mid-80’s, i was working for Bill Kelly out of
Langley Mill, Derbys; the cowboy to end ALL cowboys!
This sounds to me very like Jock Kelly a stocky Scotsman who I knew in the
1960s when he was driving a Leyland 4 wheeler for Midlands Storage in West
Hallam. I had a 4 wheeler Albion at Hedley Shaw’s in Stapleford and went in to
Storage one day to load bikes for London docks. Jock was there loading for
the same place and we decided to run together. The springing on my Albion
was very soft being, I later discovered, a coach chassis, and the high wide
load was leaning alarmingly on the road camber. Jock followed me closely
through London so it wouldn’t be too noticeable but that was the only favour he
did me. At the docks I helped him unsheet and wrap up his, very large, sheets
in the rain, and then to handball the bikes off. Then he disappeared leaving
me to do all my work alone!
I later heard of him becoming a, rather dodgy, OD and seem to remember that
he was in league with someone else, but can’t recall the details. Perhaps you
or someone else can fill in the gaps.
Salut, David.