Condolences to the family - a rare character has gone the way of all things.
No-one's yet mentioned the AJ method for removing insects from Gazelle pitot tubes - the one which involved leaving a ring of scorched lip around the nearly-red-hot item in question.
I reckon the BMW sales-volk around Laarbruch had nearly as hard a time of it as any of the hierarchy - d'you remember the grief he gave them when his brand-new 1-Series was found (after purchase) to be unable to take snow-chains?