Hi Chris,

Your right in your statement Alain did get it wrong, back in the sixties it was a great time to be working in England there were jobs galore to be had in the motor trade you could ask for arise and if you did not get one.
Walk across the road a get a start at another garage no bother wages weren't high but the cost of living was low. Big companies had strong unions then looking after it members interest. I got into forklift maintenance in 1973 when inflation was going crazy in the country. I was on forty pounds a week then but could not make ends meet as we might say but when I got that forklift job it paid more than twice that salary and I could not have wished for a better employer, and I'm going to name that employer it was Yale best employer I ever had.