Aberdour, Gilbert Victor Norman

Travelling Post Office; childhood; working as a boy messenger; sorter, inland section; Mount Pleasant Sorting Office; application to work on Travelling Post Office, acceptance; TPO route, Euston-Aberdeen; conditions; memories of railway engines; train formation, West Coast Postal Ltd; quantity of mail; description of sorting coach; staff and equipment for loading and unloading; experience of loading and unloading the mail while travelling; route knowledge; conditions, rest facilities, long shifts; lodging away from home, camaraderie; digs cont.; work rota, obtaining leave; different routes; incidents, fog, freezing weather; security arrangements; incidents, cream cakes, dropping mail in canal; the Irish Mail; d.o.b. 1917-04-03, railway work 1936-39; 1945-47. 3.1496 x 2.8346 x .315 in.