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Subject: Re: [TR] Ultimate restoration
From: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:47:06 -0000
Michael Porter wrote:
> Odd things happen in factories.

The late Robin Penrice, known to many from his column in Triumph World, also 
caused problems for the 
security guys at the factory in Coventry in the early 1960's.
A mutual friend told me that one day Robin said he had need of a blacksmith's 
anvil at home. Quite 
what he or his Dad needed of an anvil I have no idea and maybe the whole thing 
was a dare? Anyway, 
come the day, Robin was 'helped' out of No. 1 Gate at Canley bent double, 
wearing a long and flowing 
coat and with both arms around the shoulders of accomplices. It must have 
looked strange to see 
three people tottering out amid the frenzy of cars and bicycles. Robin was 
approached by a security 
man. "Wassa matter? You drunk or ill?"
"Crippling gut ache," Robin replied. "Can't walk, can't stand upright, going to 
the hospital."
They let him through.
Having crossed the boundary between company and public land, Robin straightened 
up, and removed the 
rope from around his neck from which the anvil was slung.
"We did it!" they shouted and out of the crowd, another man stepped and handed 
Robin a GBP1.00 note. 
"Well done, lad - ah didn't think tha would do it."
Meanwhile Security guy surges through the crowd.
"I know all of you and I'll have that pound for mis-appropriation of company 
property!" And pointing 
to Robin he said, "and I'll have another pound off you too, for intentionally 
misleading me as to 
your exact medical condition." Then turning to each of the accomplices, "and 
I'll have a pound off 
each of you lot for aiding and abetting! What's more, I'm off duty in half an 
hour and if you all 
want to buy me a pint in the Social Club bar, maybe after four pints, I'll 
'forget' what really 
happened and this incident won't find its way into the Thefts Book."
History has not recorded (or maybe my mind has forgotten?) what happened to the 
anvil sitting on the 
pavement outside No. 1 Gate.

Jonmac 
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