The Ups & Downs Of A Crane Driver

The author, Philip Hall, takes a trip through his working life after being employed by just one company, that had changes of ownership twice during that time. He held various positions within those companies, office worker, mechanic on the workshop floor, running the workshop repair office and, finally, for the last three decades of employment, driving heavy goods vehicles and mobile cranes, the latter ranging from the smallest to the largest in the hire fleet, at that time. Some research was necessary to discover how the founding company began at the very start back in the nineteen twenties and how it became so successful. The remainder was purely 'off the top of the head', as it were, plus reference to old diaries. The purpose is to give the reader an idea of what work was like, especially crane driving, back in earlier times.