Todays photos show the completion of the stand building phase at the Algiers International Trade Fair for the British Group. Once again it showed the opportunities afforded to those who worked for Promotor to do something a bit different to the norm. Most of us were taken on as lorry drivers but we soon found that other avenues would open up to add even more interest to what was already an exiting company to work for. However, Bryan Stevenson and the Kiwi lad were different as they were taken on as stand fitters which entailed them travelling all over eastern europe as well as Algiers. A few years later I bumped into Bryan at a company I was visiting in High Wycombe who were exhibiting at Iran Med in Tehran that year. It was a medical equipment company and there was Bryan in suit and tie working as an export salesman. Obviously he still had the urge to travel.
You didn’t need a degree in further education to do our job just a bit of savvy and determination to do a ‘proper job’. Just like when driving the lorry, you took your instructions before you left the office but from then on you were on your own.
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