Just after the war-- One man came to our house, for lodgings (mother took in lodger`s then )
He said his father had bought two M.T.B.s, to be broken up in Gillingham or Rainham.
He went off to work, on returning he said ` too much work, I might have to sell one whole `.
Then he offered me a job `can you weld, or use a torch, I need both`. I could not, do either.
He was stripping the boat`s for the scrap value, and time was an element. He said the next day
`I have done a deal for the second boat, and I finish up here, today. He paid mother, & was away..
He told us WHO his father was. `He bought the WARSPITE for scrap ! I remember it broke away
from tugs, on the way to the Clyde to be broken up. He seem genuine, about his father.
