With the Mayor and Lynn were Dennis McCarthy the local presenter from BBC Radio Nottingham who was giving their support to Lynn's efforts. 

Dennis was also a well-respected dog breeder from Nottinghamshire. 

We traveled to Butterwick with our ancient BMC lorry with trailer and Victoria Carriage. 

In the box,  we had Juno and her son Jupiter who was to become an equine “celebrity” of some note up and down the County during his future career as a working Carriage Horse for Horse Drawn Weddings.

He also became “unforgettable” when he was asked to take Ruth and me to numerous “Sunday meets” of the British Driving Society within the County. 

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Bags and coats went through a scanner and humans passed through an even larger one. It all seemed fine until it was my turn. I duly took off anything metal and pushed my coat and bag into a box that disappeared. I walked through the scanner and caused an immediate alert. 

The noise was deafening and a smart security guard quickly grabbed me and placed me against the nearest wall. 

Just like the films, my legs were spread and my arms extended while he passed a handheld scanner over my entire body. I was apparently a terrorist.

I could not imagine what on earth was causing the problem. I had forgotten to take off my watch and showed him that. The problem was far greater than a watch and he was determined to find whatever I had hidden on me!

The whole world seemed to be focused on me. All those long queues of people were goggling in amazement at the scene. Had they really found a terrorist?

The problem was isolated to my left leg, was there something hidden in my pocket or the seam of my trousers, was I going to have to take off all my clothes here and now?

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This story has an unfortunate ending for those of you with as they say 

“a nervous disposition! “

There was a violent hammering on the side door of our house and we opened it to behold an accident right on our doorstep.

Parked on the road and just a few feet from our driveway entrance was a Reliant Robin three-wheel car. 

Some way in front and on the same side of the road was a small normal four-wheel saloon. Who actually hammered on our door I cannot rightly remember now, but it could have been one of the Picker children who lived just across from our garden on the south side of the house.

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I asked Sid for his help and explained what it was all about.
He very kindly loaned us a proper towable shellfish ‘food sales trailer’. 

Permission was granted for us to sell our produce at the rally and then we had to decide what it was we were actually going to try and sell?

It was left entirely in my hands as our Hall committee only amounted to four or five who included Les Langstaff's father, Bert Langstaff, John Rundle's father, “Jack” Rundle, Ivor Bush the owner of B.A. Bush Tyres and Harry Hubbard our retired postman. 

None of them were shellfish fans!

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THE RISE AND FALL OF A GOOD IDEA!

If I did not mention the fact before, the sole reason Ruth and I were appointed as the very first Uniroyal tyre stocking point in the UK was that Uniroyal wanted Harry Thorne’s business. 

Firestone were now totally out of the way and the door was open for a manufacturer of premium tyres to take their place in supplying Fossitt and Thorne with their retail outlets covering the length and breadth of Lincolnshire and into Norfolk and Cambridgeshire.

Fortunately for us, Harry Thorne was asked how he thought the tyres could best be supplied to his depots. He actually said, “If you want my business, then Keith Sanders will handle the distribution.”

We had no idea that anything like this was “in the wings” and the first thing we knew was when the Uniroyal national Distribution Manager made an appointment to come and see us.

Our small operation collecting complaint tyres already covered the whole of eastern UK on a regular basis. Our fleet of second hand vehicles had been adapted to carry tyres but they were not terribly smart!

Read on...........

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The following is my recollections of the situation as I saw it at the time. We can not delve into the more intricate company details of Fossitt and Thorne as I was never prithy to that kind of information. Here we are looking from the outside, the way I saw it!

The high times of ECYB the tyre distribution business set up and run by Ruth and I was when we were appointed the very first “entrepot” for Uniroyal in the UK in 1977 and as it so happened the last, to close in 1983.

These were undoubtedly the best times we ever had commercially. Largely because of our relationship with Fossitt and Thorne.

Quite by coincidence these times corresponded with a similar experience in the history of the Fossitt and Thorne company.

FOSSITT AND THORNE

It would help to explain a little more here in case I did not make myself understood previously, we go back now to the 1950's.

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This time I was carrying animal feed in half hundredweight sacks. Feed Nuts we called them. A concentrated product was put through a machine in an animal feed factory, that made it all come out in short dry lengths suitable for animals to chew. 
This load was to go to two farms, 5 tons to each which meant that each farm had a delivery of 200 bags of feed. That is 40 half hundredweight bags to a ton and 5 tons.

The first delivery was to the region of Cynwyl Elfed, which seemed ok when planning the journey, except that the farm was on the top of a hill that the lorry would not go up.

Lots of these hills were short and very steep with tight corners. 

This particular hill was so bad the lorry began slipping its clutch in bottom gear halfway up. I had no choice but to reverse slowly with one foot on the accelerator keeping the engine revving hard to keep the air up in the brake as I slid backward.

The brakes eventually gave out and I ended up in the roadside bank at one side. 

A number of the bags were burst but still contained by the lorry sheet.

I gave up on that one and went on the Newcastle Emlyn where I had better access to the farm.

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WE ACTUALLY GAVE TYRES AWAY.............I BECAME AN “EDUCATOR”

All kinds of ideas were floated from head office management to try and combat this resistance to a new product. In the end it all came down to the men at the sharp end like myself who did their best to ‘educate’ the tractor drivers and tractor owners. 

Replacement sales of this new design of tyre was also hit hard and in the Lincoln area in conjunction with our main tyre dealers like Fossitt and Thorne, my boss Fred Popham and I had the idea to begin a series of evening film shows to Farmers and Young Farmers to explain the special benefits of this tyre. These were very successful.

We even gave tyres away! Not ‘willy nilly’ but to the Champion Tractor Ploughmen of the County who were qualified to enter the World Ploughing Championships. I had three in my area, all the very best ploughmen in their own categories.

They all agreed to accept the tyres provided we could get them fitted in sufficient time for them to practice before the ploughing competition season began. For two weeks in the late spring this took priority over anything else on my ‘patch’. Dates were confirmed for the actual 

I BECAME AN “EDUCATOR”

All kinds of ideas were floated from head office management to try and combat this resistance to a new product. In the end it all came down to the men at the sharp end like myself who did their best to ‘educate’ the tractor drivers and tractor owners. 

Replacement sales of this new design of tyre was also hit hard and in the Lincoln area in conjunction with our main tyre dealers like Fossitt and Thorne, my boss Fred Popham and I had the idea to begin a series of evening film shows to Farmers and Young Farmers to explain the special benefits of this tyre. These were very successful.

We even gave tyres away! Not ‘willy nilly’ but to the Champion Tractor Ploughmen of the County who were qualified to enter the World Ploughing Championships. I had three in my area, all the very best ploughmen in their own categories.

They all agreed to accept the tyres provided we could get them fitted in sufficient time for them to practice before the ploughing competition season began. For two weeks in the late spring this took priority over anything else on my ‘patch’.  

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The next part of his life is a little sketchy as we came on the scene after he had experienced a bad accident. Goliath was by now just over 12 years old and retired earlier than would have been normal due to his unfortunate upbringing. Remember his muscles were not what they should have been, they were underdeveloped and had a fraction of the strength and endurance they should have had.

Goliath fell down while on this farm but we were told, to complicate matters he was inside a stable at the time. He could not get up and was what is called “cast”. Totally stuck.

By the time he was back on his feet he was in a bad state both physically and mentally. We were never sure what the situation was on this particular farm but we do know that Young and Co. paid the vet's bills for Goliath at this time.

When Kevin Flynn telephoned us early in 1991, he explained that we were Goliath's last hope.

Kevin knew we had developed the Northcote Centre to specialise in the care of big horses, and he asked if we would consider giving Goliath a home. Kevin also knew we did not use stables but that the horses lived in communities in large buildings. They led their own lives to a certain extent and learned to obey voice commands rather than be led around on the “end of a string”. 

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