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viceroy wrote:The shop to the immediate right of the first Leyland Titan bus was a branch of Dunn & Co., a rather old fashioned establishment that specialised in menswear for the More Mature Gentleman. This gave them something of an image problem which is probably why they went out of business eventually.
Mike Ringer of Fraser Trust is out of this secretive loop nowadays but feels a weird sense of deja vue. Almost a decade ago he joined Dunn & Co, the bluest of high street bloods, to sort out its 180-strong portfolio. Within three years, they were all gone.
He found the company was owned by its pension fund and the stores run as an employment centre. 'It was an archaic structure which did not have profit top of the list,' says Ringer.
Socceroo wrote:Dugald i think you are getting your football players mixed up.
I don't want to take the thread on a tangent, but here is a link to the story of an old Rangers Player who owns a Hotel at Gairloch and is pretty incapacitated these days not so much from football but more form his time as a soldier in Korea where he was pretty well shot up with a machine gun.
http://heritage.scotsman.com/topics.cfm ... 1668832006
I discovered the article when i was doing some research for the Bombs over Glasgow thread. Wrong War but a very intersting article.
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