Colourful character
27th December 1980, Page 10
27th December 1980
Page 10
Page 10, 27th December 1980
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IN the retirement of Frank Galbraith, a he-man director of Seddon Atkinson, who has served 45 years with the company and its predecessors, Foster and Seddon and Seddon Motors Ltd, the industry is losing another of its colourful characters.
When he left school, jobs were as scarce as they are now and he had to work in a kiln producing sanitary ware. By the age of 16 he was completely dehydrated and found a job in a Manchester garage before joining Foster and Seddon in Salford 21/2 years later.
Motor vehicles were in his blood. At the age of 12 he had helped fitters and had occasionally driven buses in his home town of Bishop Auckland. At 14 he was part-time driverconductor with the town's Royal Bus Service when 14-seaters