These failed entrepreneurs, somehow always one step behind the times, are first encountered when they have the window-cleaning contract for the Chester-Perry Building. Young Godfrey is fretting for a change from the leathers and the ladders. His more experienced father (only known to us as "N") puts him in his place. Pointing through the window to Bristow he tells his son "There’s always someone worse off than you".

N. Walters delivers his devastating verdict on Bristow

Nevertheless Godfrey persuades his father to change. They take up accountancy and land the audit of the Chester-Perry Co. For a brief while they irritate Atkins of Accounts but the figures give them a headache and they revert to window cleaning. Then they try out a variety of businesses with singular lack of success. Bristow encounters them at the Ideal Office Exhibition selling furniture with an alarming similarity to that in his own office, running a Dry Cleaning business (spoilt by Godfrey’s habit of wearing his customers’ clothes) and even as the Security Company to C-Ps. They are no match for the clerical villains who steal everything they have, including the very shirts of their backs - think I'm exaggerating? see strip 5023. Fortune smiles on N Walters & Son, Signwriters when the local council needs to fill the park with signs ("Keep off the grass", "No games" etc etc).

 Whenever Bristow needs a specialist service, somehow it is always N Walters & Son who turn out to be running it. On the occasion that Bristow promises to do Jones’ work for him and Jones rushes out to get his hearing checked, it is of course N Walters & Son, Ear Specialists who are on hand. And when Mr. Gordon Blue derives his secret formula for hamburgers. who should be listening but N Walters (& Son) who then go into business as "Hamburgers for the hungry".

N Walters & Son's fast food venture

Godfrey's true ambition ? Perhaps strip 4140 will shed some light.

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