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21 — Jack Chaplin (born 1924) talks about the Peak Engineering Co.:

“The Peak Engineering Company originated in London during the blitz, and it existed in name only. This is what George Hayes told me, in those days you had to get a licence to move out of London because of the blitz, you could get a special licence to set up somewhere else. This bloke — whatever was his name, he rang the War Ministry and said my factory’s been bombed out, could you make arrangements to move me out of town, I’ve got some of the equipment about there somewhere when I’ve sorted it all out. Of course, there was so much going on in those days with bombs flying everywhere, that not much check was made of what he was saying, and in the background he had got somebody banging a kettle, and a drum or something , and said ‘we’re doing our best to keep going, and got no roof and …’ So, he got the requisite money together and moved to Shipston, next to the White Horse, it was Downsett Garage then, and that is how the Peak Engineering Company started, which is what he said, and I don’t doubt.
He was so cute, he refused to join the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Guard, he didn’t join the services, this chap. He was taken to court for refusing to join the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Guard — I don’t know what happened in the end - I got called up…â€�

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