Quote #21

Fred also previously received two honorary doctorates ..... They were both given by the relevant engineering faculties, but Fred always told people that they were for 'back street mechanicing'.

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  1. 'That's Bolton's biggest chimney that... and I climbed it for a ten bob wager. Never did get the ten bob though.'
  2. 'I've never fell off a big chimney. You'd only fall off one of them once.'
  3. 'Them fancy London types don't know the pleasure of eating chips with fingers'
  4. 'By 'eck it were grand.'
  5. 'Teaching boys to bake cakes? That's no way to maintain an industrial empire.'
  6. 'The thing is nowadays, you'll have 20 men working, yet 60 men telling them 'You can't do that, you ain't got a tin hat on''.
  7. 'It's a funny thing this celebrity. If you don't wave back you're a miserable bugger, if you do wave back you're a big-headed bugger. I don…
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