After completing our initial training in Instilux, as it was in 1970, 3 of us were sent to the UK for initial traing; myself and Mick Lewis went to redbrae and Tony Gleadell went to Preston.
As usual, I proceeded to FU big time (supervisor's daughter
, although I didn't know it until she introduced me to Daddy) and soon ended up back in Brussels, appropriately living in a room near the Manekin Pis!. About this time I was called into HQ for a (one sided) dixcussion on the subject of my future career. So, faced with the prospect of actually having to work for a living, I decided to keep my head below the parapet for a couple of years. ( I think Jim Creegan started to get it in the neck from then on
)
BTW. Not only was Reynolds a miserable
, he was also a tight-fisted one. I remember he used to come to work on a NSU moped and most of us tried to run him off the road as he weaved away along Porters Way
