Godon's final journey on £500,000 crane
Gordon's coffin was reverently placed on the family business' latest, biggest and most expensive acquisition - a 120 ton-capacity crane.
The vehicle had cost the company nearly 500,000. Gordon, dying of lung cancer but gamely continuing to work until almost the last, had seen the new five-axle Grove. But he never had opportunity to drive it.
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Hide AdYesterday morning, his cortege moved off from the Thorne Crescent depot where Gordon, 73, had worked since he was a schoolboy to Eastbourne crematorium.
His most unusual "hearse" was so huge that Gordon had to do one last time what he had done so often in his working life - follow the approved Abnormal Load route.
The family tribute was, said his son, Paul, and daughter, Margaret, what he would have wanted.