It Wasn't All Work. An autobiography

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Autobiography focusing on his business life. Early on worked for Hercules Cycle Co Ltd, bicycle manufacturers, and recalls mass production methods and 'the infectious enthusiasm of its management'. He subsequently worked for Littlewoods for 20 years where he was a non-family executive director and responsible for its wartime production of parachutes. Comments generally on mail order. He subsequently acquired the ailing mail order business, John Myers, and revived it, floating it on the Stock Exchange. Chapters include: 'Early memories'; 'Motor cycles and boiled mutton'; 'Hercules, first rung on the ladder'; 'Littlewoods'; 'John Myers'; Thereafter;'