person-joe-vance (Extension 4) holds the critical double-portfolio of Lubridor & Leatherette for the Royal Dornoch Gondola Company.

Joe’s daily duties involve a delicate, highly ordered ballet: first applying grease to the moving steel haul rope, and then applying a clean cloth to the cabin seating (strictly avoiding rag-crossover to protect the delicate leatherette).

He is highly respected by colleagues for his disciplined, downward-facing posture—a safety technique designed to keep industrial grease out of his eyes, which has coincidentally been adopted as a profound psychological swing thought by visiting golfers on the Championship course.