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 Retournant à la maison avec un chargement de pipes Castello (mais pas acheté à la boutique) j'étais désormais détaillant Castello. Quelle serait la prochaine étape?
-The 1980 Dunhill Principal Pipe Dealer World Conference- it was here that I was able to meet many more fabulous folks in the pipe trade, including one William John Taylor (later to become William John Ashton-Taylor). Though I remember Bill at the conference I don’t think I ever spoke with him, and the same holds true for the 1982 Dunhill Principal Pipe Dealers World Conference which I also attended. I did finally get to meet Bill in early 1983 when I accidentally stumbled across a pipe making demonstration he was giving at one of the West End department stores. I had been importing and distributing pipes from 1980 (Radice, Becker) and I guess I always had my eye at least half open for something new. Watching Bill work that early winter’s day I thought- this man’s  got real talent. I can put his work in any of the top pipe shops in our country and it’ll sell. When we had a chance to sit down and talk I found that he had a little business repairing antique pipes for Astley’s and a few other shops in London operating from his back shed. I then broached a question- would he be interested in making his own pipes for the U.S. market. After some hesitation Bill agreed to give it a go.
+Le Congrès Mondial des Principaux Détaillants de Pipes Dunhill de 1980  – c'était là que j'avais le plus de chances de rencontrer beaucoup plus de gens importants du commerce de la pipe, y compris un certain William John Taylor (qui devait devenir plus tard William John Ashton-Taylor). Bien que je me souvienne de Bill au congrès, je ne pense pas lui avoir parlé, et ce fut pareil au Congrés Mondial des Principaux Détaillants de Pipes Dunhill de 1982 auquel j'assistai également. Je réussis enfin à rencontrer Bill au début 1983 quand je tombai par accident sur une démonstration de fabrication de pipe qu'il donnait dans un des magasins du West End. J'importais et je distribuais des pipes depuis 1980 (Radice, Becker) et je suppose que je gardais toujours un œil à moitié ouvert pour du neuf. En regardant Bill travailler ce jour du début de l'hiver, je me disais –cet homme a un réel talent. Je peux proposer son ouvrage dans n'importe laquelle des meilleures boutiques de notre pays et il se vendra. Quand nous pûmes avoir l'occasion de nous asseoir ensemble et de discuter, je compris qu'il avait une petite affaire de réparation de pipes anciennes pour Astley et quelques autres boutiques de Londres, réparations qu'il effectuait  dans sa remise. Je posai alors la question – cela l'intéresserait-il de fabriquer ses propres pipes pour le marché US? Après quelques hésitations, Bill accepta de faire un essai.
 Our first extended conversations were by phone- trying to lay out what each expected of the other and what each could do for the other. First and foremost- what type of pipe was this new brand to be? I knew and loved Dunhill pipes; Bill was Dunhill trained. It was a natural, but neither of us wanted a knock-off of Dunhill pipes. They stood on their own. We both wanted conservative shaping and a majority to be in the sandblast finish, but we wanted something more. We both wanted a real oil curing process and more hand work- the way it was done in the 1930’s through the 1950’s. And we wanted the pipes to look like they had been hand-worked; perfection was not our goal, personality was.