Re: [CR] another blow for the UK framebuilding scene!

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From: "paccoastcycles" <paccoastcycles@sbcglobal.net>
To: "kevin sayles" <kevinsayles@tiscali.co.uk>, "classic Rendezvous" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 19:54:41 -0700
Subject: Re: [CR] another blow for the UK framebuilding scene!


Kevin,

Best of luck. There is demand for well made steel frames. It may be time to strike out on your own.

Chuck Hoefer
Vista, California USA


----- Original Message -----
From: kevin sayles
To: classic Rendezvous
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 1:07 PM
Subject: [CR] another blow for the UK framebuilding scene!



> Hello fellow listers,
>
> Sadly I have to inform the group, that today I have been informed I am to
> be made redundant!!
>
> Ironically it seems the day my 'months notice' may start is exactly 39
> years to the day I got a job with Bob Jackson....on my 16th
> birthday........since then I have been continually employed as a
> framebuilder, first with Bob Jackson, then 23 years with Woodrup....and
> finally these past 10 years or so with Thorn.
>
> I was only thinking a week or so ago that I may well have been the UKs
> longest serving full time employed framebuilder?.....or certainly one of
> the longest serving........though I stand to be corrected?
>
> I have not given up hope of once again 'doing what I do best'.........its
> the only job I ever wanted to do, and I aint giving up just yet!
>
> Kevin Sayles
> Bridgwater Somerset UK
> _______________________________________________

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