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  1. wdw

    Aero A-2 'Unknown Maker' 1756 contract

    Very nice Sloan, and a great fit. I'm tempted by an A-2, but don't have a clue where to start.
  2. wdw

    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    Next questions, Sloan: Was the £194k broken down into jackets, jeans, eBay etc? How much of each? And I think you said the whole storse thing was never fully quantified or included in the total? Even though it was several hundred jackets in one year alone? Was the belief that WL benefitted...
  3. wdw

    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    Sloan, who was the third of the Moffat trio?
  4. wdw

    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    Such efforts tell you everything you need to know about such companies. At least those who see through it can make an informed choice as to whether or not to do business with them, but newcomers won't see all that. Having said that, any search for these companies will bring people here, where...
  5. wdw

    Custom Aero Sheene

    Well done, SpeedRcrX. Your efforts and patience have been well rewarded. Another home run.
  7. wdw

    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    Talking of JL, what I found interesting about her testimony was that she said she was always first in the door at 6am, yet WL claimed to be always working from 4am. Maybe he misremembered? I'm surprised at the deafening silence on the IH forum even now about them probably being the main...
  8. wdw

    Women's leather jackets

    Nice story. She's still a very good looking woman. Hard to believe she's now the age she is, but I seem to remember being surprised at her age even in the late 70s, being older than I imagined.
  9. wdw

    help!!! Buzz Rickson B-10 alpaca shedding!!

    :D A lot less stressful too. Plenty of fish in the sea, but a well-fitting and favourite jacket is a lot harder to come by.
  10. wdw

    Aero Hudson

    That's one beast of a jacket. Very solid looking and you got the sizing right. I like the darker collar on it too.
  11. wdw

    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    And with regards to price hikes due to employee theft, I recall that Aero (the Calders) announced an impending hike in September 2012, presumably due to the increasing losses. Then when they found out the reasons why they were haemorrhaging money, they cancelled the increase, which was a kind...
  13. wdw

    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    Yeah, thanks to Sloan for his sterling efforts here. If he hadn't been there we wouldn't have known 99% of this. I'm curious why the "illegal deal with Iron Heart" wasn't pursued. Is that a statement of fact by the Procurator Fiscal, as I'm sure IH deny that on their forum? In any event...
  14. wdw

    Aero Modified Sunburst

    Looks great on you. I prefer that style of pocket as it's more useful for storage.
  15. wdw

    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    My reading is that Calders wouldn't have returned to the business if the finances hadn't deteriorated drastically due to the mismanagement and theft, so their return can't be used as any attempt at justification for what happened.
  16. wdw

    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    The thing about storse, apart from not getting what they ordered, was that people paid IIRC £40 or so extra for the horse hide. So they lost financially as well as getting a heavier jacket with different ageing properties. And I don't believe all were well made, as the mixture horse and steer...
  17. wdw

    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    Sloan, your narrative makes no mention of those jackets that were made from a mixture of steer and horse, presumably from any old same-colour scraps that were lying around. I had an HWM made like this which probably cost next to nothing in scrap leather, but I paid full price for. Ken kindly...
  19. wdw

    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    Presumably to be added to any civil case?
  20. wdw

    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    Interesting again. I seem to remember talk of "super heavy" horsehide on another forum, as if this was something rare and special. Now we know it was just steer. But what about the extra money that was generated by using larger steer hides? Did that go through the Aero books? And is...
  21. wdw

    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    That was interesting reading some of that old thread. As for that Alex guy, if he'd got his money or jacket back right at the start, as he was due, IH would have come out of it smelling of roses. Instead, it dragged on and on until the whole thing became needlessly antagonistic and just plain odd.
  22. wdw

    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    I seem to remember one particularly irate IH customer who got storse and wasn't happy with it and made that known in post after post. Eventually he was given a refund by IH rather than Aero, probably because the companies weren't on speaking terms by then, just to shut him up and make him go...
  23. wdw

    Aero Leather Clothing trial update

    Wasn't the reduction in staff Sloan mentions one way to make the balance sheet look better, in that the company had less costs, thus partially offsetting any diversion of revenue. Of course, the flip side of less staff is a longer waiting time. 6 months it seems like. That could be spun to...

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