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Flett & Sons
Willie Moncrieff - van driver.
1956 - maybe a year earlier.
Picture added on 23 August 2011 at 16:29
As a young boy I remember Willie driving Flett and Sons grocery van around the houses.He had a habit of filling the paraffin cans and then diving in among the bread so you ended up with bread tasting of oil.A great and popular character and van man
Added by Jack Harcus on 29 August 2011
Willie was followed on the van by Andrew Linklater, and then by me. I wis more hygenic. Efter fillan' parafeen, I wiped me hans on a bit o sekking afore I worked wae breed or rolls!
Added by Sandy on 30 August 2011
I think that Andrew Linklater was on the van twice as Alan Borwick was vanman when I went to Flett & Sons in 1959.
Added by William P Drever on 27 March 2012
You are right Billy. The Borwick man was on it before Andrew Linklater. Andrew Linklater was on it when I came back from National Service in summer 1960. I was more or less forced to go on it, but it turned out well because it paid well, and I could sell stuff on my own behalf. Ian Tulloch (later North Eastern manager) came on the van after me.
Added by Sandy on 27 March 2012
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