tate organised iy-out farce
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/ME BIG old cats were let out the bag when John llingford retired as accounts Ice supervisor with Midlands tish Road Service in Oxford. heart went out to him as he :ailed his suffering as a group ountant at Chipping Soclbury 1949, Nhen he joined he found the iges had been drawn gross ch week, including tax and tional insurance ntributions. Drivers — of iom there was no record — Tied up and expected to be id, just like casual hands on a nday newspaper. They had no 5 forms so they were taxed on emergency code, which nost resulted in a full-scale ike.
Accounts had not been paid at least six months and there re no financial books. When a irt was made on a sales ledger a invoices were piled 3ft high d increasing daily.
Only a nationalised dertaking could have got tay with it.