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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Andy@w.c.s on August 09, 2009, 03:13:26 pm

Title: how did you start out ( pic,s )
Post by: Andy@w.c.s on August 09, 2009, 03:13:26 pm: well here it is me in 1982 going out for the day ,
I used to walk everwhere in burnhan on sea in those days
but then i was only 19 and fit bit older now and not so slim (http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj186/zwizard1/utf-8BSU1HMDAwNTUtMjAwOTA4MDktMTUwN.jpg)
Title: Re: how did you start out ( pic,s )
Post by: elite mike on August 09, 2009, 03:18:19 pm: same year as me 8) ;D

ive even got the same hat as you :o ;D
Title: Re: how did you start out ( pic,s )
Post by: s.hughes on August 09, 2009, 06:34:27 pm: they were the days, have you gone wfp?
Title: Re: how did you start out ( pic,s )
Post by: martinsadie on August 09, 2009, 07:18:48 pm: Quote from: elite mike on August 09, 2009, 03:18:19 pm
same year as me 8) ;D

ive even got the same hat as you :o ;D
no camras when you started Mike ;D ;D
Title: Re: how did you start out ( pic,s )
Post by: Paul_Rolfe on August 09, 2009, 07:28:47 pm: Did you pour hot oil over the ramparts if you got that far?
Title: Re: how did you start out ( pic,s )
Post by: wfp master on August 10, 2009, 12:29:54 pm: nice mobile dog kennel good invention did it sell well in the 1980s ;D
Title: Re: how did you start out ( pic,s )
Post by: Andy@w.c.s on August 10, 2009, 04:57:29 pm: my dad made it for me before that i used to carry them on my sholder
and at the end of the day leave them at the next customers house ready for the morning
those were the days ;D
Title: Re: how did you start out ( pic,s )
Post by: brett walker on August 10, 2009, 05:06:17 pm: those were the days andy, nice picture that must have been one of the first trolley systems

hope your keeping well mate

Brett
Title: Re: how did you start out ( pic,s )
Post by: wfp master on August 10, 2009, 05:31:11 pm: Quote from: Andy@w.c.s on August 10, 2009, 04:57:29 pm
my dad made it for me before that i used to carry them on my sholder
and at the end of the day leave them at the next customers house ready for the morning
those were the days ;D
good thinking so ure customers dogs could use it that was nice of u . ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: how did you start out ( pic,s )
Post by: elite mike on August 10, 2009, 06:29:48 pm: Quote from: Stan The Man on August 09, 2009, 07:18:48 pm
Quote from: elite mike on August 09, 2009, 03:18:19 pm
same year as me 8) ;D

ive even got the same hat as you :o ;D
no camras when you started Mike ;D ;D

i will see what i can dig up ;)
Title: Re: how did you start out ( pic,s )
Post by: elite mike on August 10, 2009, 07:05:09 pm: here is my second van 1982, with the mrs ;D whoops :o
Title: Re: how did you start out ( pic,s )
Post by: niceandclean on August 10, 2009, 07:10:06 pm: Is that an old Vauxhall Astra van, or would it of been a Bedford?
Title: Re: how did you start out ( pic,s )
Post by: martinsadie on August 10, 2009, 07:10:16 pm: im a bit old to twist my neck
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Post by: martinsadie on August 10, 2009, 07:11:30 pm: /
Title: Re: how did you start out ( pic,s )
Post by: elite mike on August 10, 2009, 07:13:44 pm: yeh its an old bedford ::) ;)

stan ive fixed it for you now ;)

could not find a pic of my first van, it was a honda think the engine was a 650 cc :o
Title: Re: how did you start out ( pic,s )
Post by: martinsadie on August 10, 2009, 07:20:14 pm: Quote from: elite mike on August 10, 2009, 07:13:44 pm
yeh its an old bedford ::) ;)

stan ive fixed it for you now ;)

could not find a pic of my first van, it was a honda think the engine was a 650 cc :o
is that the wife you have now or your first one :D
Title: Re: how did you start out ( pic,s )
Post by: elite mike on August 10, 2009, 07:22:21 pm: still on the first stan
Title: Re: how did you start out ( pic,s )
Post by: martinsadie on August 10, 2009, 07:24:07 pm: Quote from: elite mike on August 10, 2009, 07:22:21 pm
still on the first stan

must be love then ;D
im on me ,third,think i wear them out ;D
Title: Re: how did you start out ( pic,s )
Post by: eclipse on August 10, 2009, 07:34:26 pm: well my introduction to window cleaning only started in 2007 but my start in business was this.. in 2000 i believe
(http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc133/leerobinson1975/van.jpg)

ill await my slating from defecting from the dark side lol

this van only lasted a year before boiling itsef dry ;D
Title: Re: how did you start out ( pic,s )
Post by: Andy@w.c.s on August 10, 2009, 08:03:02 pm: well the things we do to get ourselfs noticed
here is a pic of me just after the last ressesion back in the 80s
and yes that was a wizards hat on top of the van and yes looking back a brillient bit of marketing (http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj186/zwizard1/utf-8BSU1HMDAwNjktMjAwOTA4MTAtMTk0N.jpg)

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