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Pioneering the Past

Oct 05, 2013 Letters

 

 

DEAR EDITOR,
In 1958 I bought my first Frigidaire for my mother from Bookers Stores, the price payable on an instalment basis, even though I was relatively flush with funds – one set from paid terminal leave of six months prior to leaving the Civil Service as a Clerk II, to join the Booker Group of Companies as a Cadet.
Since the leave approval also included permission to work during the period, I found myself also earning salary simultaneously in my new position.
Then again some years after Bookers Garage facilitated by selling me a Wolseley car (comparable then to today’s Toyota Crown) that had to be retrieved from a deceased owner. Once more I paid for it on an instalment plan.
Now six decades after we are learning that this type of transaction was pioneered in this country in this century?
Incidentally, the Frigidaire lasted into the 1990s.
E.B. John

 

 

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