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‘George, if you’ve finished your little chat with the mechanics, there’s a customer waiting out in front for you. See if you can tie him down to a deposit at least, this one actually looks as though he could be serious about buying.’
George detested the way his manager Francis Bridges managed to catch him unawares. The new boss had been there only four months but he’d made some pretty big changes. He was as inflexible as a piece of two-by-four when it came to listening to the sometimes-valuable advice of his employees. The show was being run his way or no way. If anybody didn’t like it, then they could get out. George could see Bridges’ logic. Masterton Ford Motors had practically been run into the ground last year. The man had taken a real punt sinking his money into the failing busi
