What does SU stand for?

News ( snipped-for-privacy@nospam.demon.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Skinner's Union sounds familiar.

Ah, here y'go.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember News saying something like:

Definitely Skinners Union. Where and how, I know not.

Skinner's Union. They were leather curers and the originals had bellows made of leather.

The family business was in selling shoes, they didn't make them. Their name just happened to be Skinner.

Although the early models did use a leather bellows, which were in fact made up by Skinner's wife.

I'll try and find the reference, but IIRC the original trade of Skinner's Union was leather curing. Of course by the time the carbs came along it could have diversified.

The Skinners in question eventually became the partner in the shoe shop chain Lilley and Skinner

Del

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