Hector only made the noise rather than the actual delivery of the filthy habit
when I met him he was reaching Retirement from working, I say from working as ex TCC Employees seemed to live forever, I kept meeting a Chippie down the Town when I was home on leave years afterwards called John G who must have lived to his 90's.
The "Amalgamation" of the two Companies was of course before my time (for Amalgamation read a cheap way of taking over another Company rather than buying them out the cost is changing the letter heads which will be paid for by getting rid of Surplus Office Staff
)
Hector was a member of the Tees Robinson Family Tree (Rather than the Swiss
) and bore the surname, he worked on Tugs most of his Adult life and he did work for Crosthwaite at one time as he was involved on one of the Tugs when towing the Whale(s)