Info On Unknown Person Digger

A Memory of Kingsbury.

in 1961, I started full-time employment as a trainee motor fitter at 584 garage on kingsbury circle (15 years old, I had left claremont secondary school the previous week)
among the workshop staff were Frank unremembered surname), - the first mechanic i worked with, Ken Darvill, Sid Curtis Steve Jones, Percy Pershad, William (bill) Dennis and Richard Rust,( who aroused my interest in Volkswagons). were other members of staff.
Ron Marshall and Bill(?) Williams (no relation) ran the workshop office.
The bodyshop foreman was a Mr. Anderson, father of Barry who left claremont the same time as i did.
now comes a question which has bothered me for many a year, can any relative of a 584 employee recall a name?
working there in the bodywork department was a enormously strong, beefy Australian panelbeater, my late father, Dick, who had a part-time job on the petrol pumps told me that this Aussie who was known to all only as 'Digger', was a ex rower who had competed for Australia in the olympics ( over the years, though, I had learned to take many of dad's tales with a pinch of salt.).
Digger owned a red and white Austin Healey 3000 convertable, other leads- the austin healey club and the 3000 register gave negative results. the car's reg. no was AGO360.but was not recorded in their registers by them

please - can anyone give DIGGER a name ?


Added 04 April 2021

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