So much heavy material has been placed at the feet of the great entrepreneur Bulmer that I thought you might like a little light relief. It's pretty likely that CM, along with perhaps his record pressing factory PR Records, is on the skids. He is prone to "liberating" assets and word on the street is that CM is in danger. PR has already been well and truly Bulmered and it seems record presses and assorted manufacturing machinery has been slowly moving from Wimbledon to Harrogate. Now record pressing equipment, I am told, needs a good and constant head of steam in the process and this steam is generated by steam boilers. Our entreprenuer, the Steptoe that he is, has tried to do on the cheap(of course) and purchased six huge boilers at auction. Now these are not domestic boilers but big enough to hold a football team inside each one. The problem is that our brilliant businessman has bought "water" heating boilers that cannot and are not designed to raise steam. Totally and completely useless! These are now sitting at the Hookstone Works unit in Harrogate and if anyone is interested in acquiring one (or six) may I suggest you contact: David R Bulmer Roskilde House York Road Knaresborough North Yorkshire HG5 0SW Tel 01423 866538

as there may well be a bargain to be had. Ergo.