I have been reading your magazine for some years, and the tales from the workshop, drivers and transport cafes etc. My lorry-employment story, however, is a little different…
My interest life in the automotive industry in 1958 at the age of 16. Having left school in 1957 (leaving at 15 was allowed back my first job was as an office boy/messenger for Campbell Connelly, a music publisher based in Denmark Street London WC2. This was a stone’s throw from Soho, and as a 15 year old, I wandered through this area, wondering about certain services on offer in various locations. Such mysteries as “Swedish air hostess gives knitting lessons” and the red lights outside certain premises which I soon learned did not mean they sold Watney Mann beer.
