Jock Tamson was at the door

A drunk driver was at the centre of an odd incident as he knocked at the door of a house in Linwood, and asked the woman who answered it for‘a push’.

He then walked straight into her living room, where he asked her husband the same question.

When they asked his name, he replied‘Jock Tamson’.

The incident was described in court, in 1959, when the 34-yearold chimney sweep, of Ferguslie Park Crescent, pleaded guilty to being drunk in charge of a motor van.

At 9.45pm on the Saturday night, the accused had asked two boys, aged 11 and 12, to give him a push, as his van was at the side of the road with the front wheels on the grass verge, but they saw that he was drunk and ran off.

He then went to the house and it was there that police discovered he was in no fit state to drive.

The accused, who said that he had nothing to eat and was taken to the pub after doing a job for a man, was fined £25 with the alternative of 60 days in prison.

When they asked his name, he replied ‘Jock Tamson’