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Eric Black was the reason I started bus driving in Europe ! (and by inference he has a lot to answer for). It started when I was living with his mother......no,no,..no...repharse..I was boarding with his mother in Blayney NSW. I got the job of "vetting" the mail he sent to the family and I soon realised that working on the buses in Europe had certain enticing advantages, I also undertook mundane tasks like doing his Tax returns for him.
Some years later I was working for Capricorn in the yard next to Auto Tours workshop in London and was sent to Amsterdam in the blue Daff van with a tool box and a big roller jack to repair an Auto Tours coach which was having clutch problems. When I got to the camping ground in Amsterdam I found the problem was a broken rod between the clutch master and slave cylinders which took about two minutes to fix. While we were cleaning up a suntanned body went passed in black shorts with "Ecka's" emblazoned in white writing at a strategic location at the front and I went and introduced myself by saying something like "hello, I've been signing your Tax declarations" which got his attention. I was invited to join his Red Light Tour that evening and only clearly remember waking up next morning with a severe hangover.
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