Sir Peter was in fine fettle
12th May 1984, Page 53
12th May 1984
Page 53
Page 53, 12th May 1984
— Sir Peter was in fine fettle
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IT WAS unfortunate that the National Freight Consortium should be holding a board meeting on the day when its chairman and chief executive, Sir Peter Thompson, had a date with the Queen. To a celebrated Yorkshire-born fettler, however, this presented no problem. He went straight from Buckingham Palace to the meeting at Bedford, where he received a different kind of accolade.
His fellow directors presented him with a small fettling tool, rather like an ice-pick, which they had obtained from a local foundry. It has a spike at one end and a broad blade at the other, either of which Sir Peter will, I am sure, not hesitate to use to remove any rough edges from the consortium's finely honed products.