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Evening Gentlemen, well, weve been doing the last of the Maize today, plus a bit of spraying, and a little go. go, juice to the new drillings, and some wrapped bales for the last of the grass…so fairly busy.
Then , (a habit I must learn to drop), I come into the office, and while downloading all the telephone calls, I switch on the computer to “just see” what is going on with Truck Net…and Moomooland finds a long forgotten collection of Guy Lorry adverts!!
B A Hopcutt, Horsley Fields Wolverhampton…an area, close to the "High Level Railway Station…(now sadly gone under the “modernisation” of Wolverhampton). Bertie Hopcutts “emporium” was a deep, and dark building right at the top of Horsley Fields, backing onto the wonderful Georgian, St James Square, (yes, once Wolverhampton was an architectually elegant town)…killed in the 60s and 70s…the “luddite Labour council” even destroyed the elegant and priceless Georgian St Johns Square, by driving a dual carriageway ring road through it…and ensuing the ultimate failure of the retail sector in the town centre…and in the process destroying one of the best ever Chinese Laundries, and a collection of Elizabethan timber framed houses and courts!
As a young man had quite a few deals with Bertie…used to stop right outside with a fresh load from J N Millers,(whose mill was just around the corner), and “■■■■” over his stock…then try and “deal” whatever I had at the time, against what he had in that dark satanic garage…
I once part exchanged a BSA Gold Flash…slightly worn…against a beautiful Lea Francis tourer…(very, oh so very worn)…but of course Bertie was a “real” Trader!! Always will remember the screeching slide over the wet cobbles of Victoria square to avoid colliding with a Park Royal bodied Sunbeam Trolleybus…that is how I learned that the Lea Francis had “minimal” brakes!!
Wonder whatever happened to that Guy Vixen Chassis that sat covered in dust at the back of his premises alongside a damaged 20s Bentley roadster■■?
Bertie was a renowned “motor trader”, where Lagondas, and Bentleys rubbed elegant shoulders with the odd Guy chassis cab…and he was always “up for a deal”, car lorry…or motorcycle.
Must get a Bollinger to lubricate the little grey cells…Moomooland you have ensured that I get a B… for being late for tea…Thanks!!
Cheerio for now.
Cheers Dennis. 
Dennis.
Regards Chris