Sowerbutt's Cars

"Warren Street, just behind Euston Road, was used-car alley after the war," the retired writer for the East London Pioneer, who still has the notebook from his early 1960s interview with Jimmy Sowerbutt, said. "There'd be dozens of cars and vans for sale there every day; many of them hot. Buyer beware if you had any sense. The dealers, spivs we called them, dealt in cash - to avoid problems with Inland Revenue and with the buyers when the cars broke down. That's where Jimmy Sorbay and his lads came in, offering protection to the dealers and particularly to the bankers who would look after the cash for the day. He often worked for Big Stan Setty, who sold cars as well as being a banker. Setty was chopped up by his business partner in 1949 and dropped from a plane on the marshes near Southend. Jimmy always said it was a sad end for an honest crook."  http://www.amazon.co.uk/Colour-of-Red-ebook/dp/B00B1CWM5M/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1358353851&sr=1-1