John Ward - Logistics Director

I joined the Britnell family business in 1964 as an apprentice carpenter. I worked on the house building side of the business with occasional caravan repairs thrown in.

When the building business closed we went into full time caravan rental. I progressed to become foreman carpenter in charge of the building, renovation and maintenance of caravans, mobile offices and mobile toilets.

I first became aware of the value and usefulness of a Land Rover in the late sixties when faced with the problem of a caravan lying on its side and no one for miles around to help. I looked around for ideas. At half past ten on a summers morning me, the Land Rover, a length of rope and a pile of bricks set about the task. Between us we righted the caravan, mended the window and put the door back on. All before teatime and nobody knew any different.

When the caravan business closed in 1988 I returned to building for a couple of years. During which which time I ran a 110 pickup that carried anything from sand to tree trunks and doubled up as a mobile workshop. During this time I also carried out maintenance at the High Street premises of Dingocroft.

In 1990 I became a full time member of the shop staff at Downley working as delivery driver, and in charge of the general upkeep of the buildings.

Today my main job is organising the van delivery sales together with looking after the stores and the goods that pass through it. I still get time to change the occasional light bulb or put a shelf up. In recent years our export business has increased greatly so a lot of time is taken on picking and packing orders for despatch to all parts of the world.

Outside of work my main interest is music and collecting things, anything from records to stamps, tools to model cars. If things had been different I might have been a full-time musician, but every time an opportunity came along I chose to stick with the  caravans - but you do need something to pull them with, don’t you?

Contact Information

Telephone

+44 (0)1494448367

FAX

+44 (0)1494459964

Postal address

Dingocroft, High Street, Downley, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire HP13 5XJ Great Britain Company registration number 1163210 (England)

Electronic mail

General Information and sales: sales@dingocroft.co.uk
Webmaster: mailto:webmaster@dingocroft.co.uk

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Last modified: October 27, 2005