Gun and Fames Ltd
Gun and Fames make something that C-Ps buy. We know this because on the rare occasions that Bristow chases up a purchase order it tends to be with Gun and Fames. Bristow has been chasing them for many years. He can deliver magnificent waves of invective over the phone or write grossly insulting letters that lead to long chains of correspondence.
One up to Bristow as Gun & Fames' finest are baffled
It has to be said that G&F staff are as about as interested in selling to C-Ps as Bristow is to buy from them. If he urges an order using strong language they would much rather reply with a harshly-worded letter than actually deliver the goods. If he is nice to them then there will be a different reason strip 2256.
Recently the happy-go-lucky mood of the sales staff has darkened. From a strip on Frank Dickens' website in November 2003 we find these comments about Bristow:-
. Once they would have channelled all this aggression into vituperative correspondence and phone calls made in silly voices. It's rather sad really. Doesn't anyone care anymore?
Gun and Fames are far more appreciative of their staff than Chester-Perry’s. If Bristow hears a crackling on the phone whilst chasing an order it is his opposite number unwrapping Christmas presents from the firm. If the man he wants is "in the pool", he isn’t in the typing pool but the swimming pool. But the thing that makes Bristow slump on his desk going "Sob!" is when he hears "Sorry Mr. Bristow I shall have to put the phone down, the wages are coming and I shall need both hands".