The former Ford employee who was 'bred, born and buttered on Ford money'

It's 75 years since Gus McLaughlin started at Ford - and the memories of a lifetime working with the motor manufacturer are as vivid as ever.

It was during World War II, in 1942, that Gus began working in Dagenham - the Cork plant virtually shut at the time due to wartime shortages.

“My father had been working in Ford in Dagenham, and I was a Ford man, you could say all my life.