‘Aggressive’ company boss misled 80-year-old over home improvement work

Ruud Gullit4 years ago05 mins

Loft insulation file photo: PA A Swindon businessman admitted that his tactics were ‘aggressive and misleading’ when he tried to persuade a diabetic 80-year-old Herefordshire man to buy unnecessary home improvement work from his company. Company director Garry Potticary, 63, of Pye Lane, Swindon, pleaded guilty at Gloucester Crown Court on May 16 to three…

The 1935 Boss Manufacturing Company Strike, Part 1

Ruud Gullit4 years ago010 mins

Lay & Lyman General Department Store, ca 1890s. Top inset photo, Hiram T. Lay; bottom, William H. Lyman. Hazen Hayes Perkins was born in 1847 in Ottawa, Illinois. By the early 1870s, he was inventing and making farm implements. He obtained his first patent for a cultivator in 1873. . More: Dean Karau history: The…