Thanks to the many people who replied to my queries about my uncle allegedly dying from the First World War flu epidemic - but in 1922. It has been suggested that his employment as a tram conductor may have been given out of sympathy to a man invalided out of the forces. While that may be so, from what little I remember of riding on Sunderlad trams in the 1940's when visiting my grandparents suggests that the last job you would want would be as a conductor if you were unfit, galloping up and down stairs, exposed to the weather at times, and in an atmosphere heavy with tobacco smoke. And didn't the conductor sometimes change the points, too? Adrian