Geoff Ball and Hughie McGovern
Geoff Ball and Hughie McGovern had a novel way of beating the traffic to work in the morning in 1981 - they flew in by hang-glider.
The engineers worked at Patricroft which made powered hang-gliders and they commuted to the factor from a field near Geoff's Meadowside Avenue home in Tong Fold.
The journey took them less than 10 minutes and they never had to face any hold-ups
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