Hood Frank
| Type of person | Individual |
|---|---|
| Principal occupation | Garage owner. "Hood's Garage" on Adelaide Road opposite the racecourse |
Frank owned Hood's Garage for about forty years and lived adjacent.He had a small used car yard to the other side of his house. Brian Thom recollects that in 1963 he purchased, on the advice of his father -"who knew nothing about cars" , his first car from Frank Hood. It was a Morris Minor two door which cost 300 pounds. -"It wasn't a good buy". (see receipt of sale alongside).
Hood's Garage had the first electrically powered petrol pump outside the metropolitan area.
For a period, David Jewis was proprietor of the garage which, as an independent petrol outlet, sold seven different brands of petrol at once.
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