Hood Frank
| Type of person | Individual |
|---|---|
| Principal occupation | Garage owner. "Hood's Garage" on Adelaide Road opposite the racecourse |
Frank owned Hood's Garage for about forty years and lived adjacent.He had a small used car yard to the other side of his house. Brian Thom recollects that in 1963 he purchased, on the advice of his father -"who knew nothing about cars" , his first car from Frank Hood. It was a Morris Minor two door which cost 300 pounds. -"It wasn't a good buy". (see receipt of sale alongside).
Hood's Garage had the first electrically powered petrol pump outside the metropolitan area.
According to Glimpses of Gawler Vol2 p59 "Frank Hood who owned the garage for about forty years lived adjacent with a small used car yard to the side of his house. For a period the garage was an independent petrol outlet selling seven different brands of petrol."
For a period, David Jewis was proprietor of the garage which, as an independent petrol outlet, sold seven different brands of petrol at once.
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