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Our Cars& Businesses
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A Few of Our BusinessesA Few of Our Businesses
Security CommunicationsTritron ElectronicsTexas SesquicentennialBanque National de AngersKitz Kopters
Brad and former Chief of Police Jess Curry demonstratingElectronic bugging equipment.
Brad, chief Curry, John Walvord and American Poster & Printing published Chief Curry’s Book
Brad’s Electro
Detective Badge
There was Watergate
Bugging was big news
Even with all with all his efforts in the electronics field he still found time to work with members of the real estate field.See left art.
Because of his business building
and selling his subminiature
electronic equipment and the media
interest following the Watergate
bugging drew even more attention
as shown in these samples of full
page newspaper coverage.
Bugging & DebuggingBugging & Debugging
Most of these items
were full page
articles.
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MONDAY --- Let’s don’t repeat the name of the firm, otherwise the trick wouldn’t work; but a group of Dallas shops have cut their shoplifting losses in half by installing boxes around the places; painted to look like close-circuit TV cameras.
DALLAS TIMES HERALD DALLAS
DICK HITT
Security CamerasSecurity Cameras
Our Club in Texas lasted about
3 years and proved to be a time-consuming business. The Club was sold to ColinRidgway, who had been a
kicker for the Dallas Cowboys in 1965. The new owners
changed the name of the Club to Club Med which still exists
today.
Brad sold an idea to ExxonCorp. and developed itemsfor the public. The program
central theme was “Put aTiger in your Tank.”A stripped gold and yellowtail was made to hang on the Gas cap door, and a clever talking tiger (see right) was developed for
the kids.
Brad designed a novelty talking fish for the “Zuider Zee Seafood Restaurant” that had the kids menu open and the waitress made the fold that allowed the fish’s mouth to
move.
TexasSesquicen-
tennial Guns
1836 - 1986
Alex Burton interviewed Brad at
the Channel 13 Auction which this
year he had donated over $12,000.00
worth of engraved Texas
Sesquicentennial guns. A regular contributor to Channel 13’s
auctions over the years of several
thousands of
dollars.
The 1860 Army Colt
Gold BarsGold Bars
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1972 Mercedes
This Bicentennial Ingot as printed in The Bradford Post In celebration of
our Nation’s 200th Birthday. The design incorporated the style
of Paul Revere in a revolutionary style eagle, designed and engraved in hard steel dies by Dallas artist John Anton with Joyce
Engraving Company of Dallas, Texas. Actual size 2 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches. Ingots
were finished in sterling silver, pewter and 24 karat gold.
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When we brought the car home it was black and warehouse worn. Brad wanted a bright
apple red, so we located a Mercedes
Benz craftsman from Stuttgart, Germany to
take it completely apart and give it six
coats of hand-rubbed red lacquer.
Our Cars
Packard Patrician
1957 Dodge D500
Over 50 years, we had a wide variety of transportation.Due to space requirements, they are not listed in order.
Brad was driving this car when we were
dating. Parked here in front of Jan’s house in
Battle Creek, MI.
We were still dating when Brad, Mom and
myself drove to California Rose Bowl
Parade and Game. Saw the country and drove down to Mexico. We all shared the expenses
on this wonderful trip.
Our 1962 Corvette
Pictured (left) is the introduction of the Corvette Stingray taken
at the 1962 Motor Sports
Show, May 10, 1962 on the
State Fair Grounds in
Dallas, Texas. Brad & Jan
manned a booth there for the
Corvette Club of Dallas.
This MG Midget was the last sports car we owned. It was taken in front of our
home in Dallas.
They voted Jan as Miss Motor Sport
BRAD ANGERS came in with this gleam in his eye, which usually means that you would be better off if you hid in another part of the building. He said that he had acquired this replica of a 1901 Ford horseless carriage and would be glad to take me for a ride. I said that I regarded it as dangerous to ride in a carriage without a horse, but he said this was nonsense. Be forward looking, he said. Believe in progress. We went downstairs and looked at the horseless carriage. It looked like a four-wheeled bicycle with some stuff built in between the wheels. I said there wasn't room for two men on the seat, and he conceded that the seat was probably built for an overly amorous man and his girl. I said the wheels wouldn't hold up the two of us, and he asked me whether I was chickening out. He told me to make up my mind whether I was game for a ride. I wasn't, but I said I was. The guard at the parking lot held up three large trucks and two cars while he tried to get us out of his sight. Then this Angers sped away like the wind at 20 miles an hour. I noticed that he was steering with a tiller rather than a wheel, and this made me nervous. A tiller can go haywire with the wrong kind of wind. Attached to the tiller was one of those bulb-type horns which you squirt. Angers was squirting this frequently, attracting the attention of everybody. This was very distasteful to me. I have not paid my income tax yet, and I had just as soon that nobody noticed me when I walk by with my hat pulled over my eyes. I DISCOVERED very quickly that auto
safety has progressed beyond belief since 1901. In a horseless carriage, you sail along out there in front of the machine so that you will take the impact in case of a collision. The valuable machine will not be damaged. Also, there is no place to hang on in the horseless carriage. The top doesn't have any substantial stays' and the flooring is so light that it would probably tear away in a crash. You just have to sit up there and believe God is with you, and my recent behavior has been such that I am not confident of that. Angers kept telling me how he was getting 70 miles to the gallon of gasoline. I remember figuring out that a gallon of gasoline would be all that a man needed in a lifetime at the rate we were going.
1901 Ford
Definitely No Gas Gulper The unfamiliar sight of a 1901 Ford, the original “horseless carriage,” greeted Texaco station attendant Louis Williams Sunday as Brad and Janet Angers, 7770 Goforth Circle, paused in their drive around White Rock Lake to purchase 30 cents worth of regular gasoline. Angers, an antique car buff, said his vehicle gets 50 to 74 miles per gallon (4-gallon capacity).
And a fun car too.
MOSTLY, DURING the ride, I sat rigid and repeated the Coue formula to myself. There was this stupid policeman who could have stopped the whole caper. By any standards, Angers was driving recklessly, wheeling around corners at 10 miles an hour and so on. The policeman could have stopped him but just stood there with his jaw hanging down. The next time I place myself in harm's way I will not depend on any police officer to help if I am in a horseless carriage. We finally got back to the office, and I bade Angers god speed at 70 miles to the gallon and borrowed a Kleenex to wipe my forehead. The guard asked whether I was going to buy one of the little cars. "I hadn't even thought about it," I said. And I still haven't.
Our first Isuzu was a midsize Maroon
SUV, 1989 Trooper produced by the
Japanese automaker Isuzu. It was a huge seller in the sport
utility vehicle segment, and served
us well for over 10 years climaxing with our trip to Riverview,
Florida June 30. 1997
Our second Trooper: was a 2000 model and when Isuzu ceased export of the Trooper it put its effort behind an under-powered model called Rodeo, offering only a 4 cylinder motor, standard five-speedmanual transmission, and part-time four-wheel drive system. As they began to faze out the first generation Trooper, it became more in demand, and it offered more amenities, including a
V6 engine. The second generation was more refined, and was available with all power and a safety record that rivaled all other imports and U.S. cars. As of now we are still driving it.