Hi, All---
Yesterday I had meant to post a link to the actual printed page containing the tidbit below, but my scanner was acting up, so now I'm just typing it instead, a day late. The notice appeared in the magazine Cycling, March 10, 1948 in the classifieds supplement, bottom of p. A30----
"SITUATIONS VACANT Lad just leaving school to learn trade. Gillott Cycles, Ltd., 179-181 Southampton Way, London, S.E.5."
I wonder who got the job?
According to the blurb on
http://www.veloworks.com/
Ron Cooper had started his apprenticeship just the year before: "In 1947, Ron Cooper joined the firm as an apprentice, and worked to craftsman status in just a few short years training under Jim Collier. All the employees at Gillott's, including the one-armed Ron Brown, were racing men, and had a profound influence on Ron, who stayed with A.S. Gillott through the early 1960s when the business sale to Edwardes was proceeding."
If you could project yourself back through the mists of time to England in '48, as a lad just coming out of school then, would YOU have liked such a job?
Just wondering, in Whitewater, Wisconsin US of A Peter Jourdain
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