That's the bloke. The accountant had some very funny stories about stocktaking for Sykes' resources company.
Sykes would fly him out of Melbourne into Qld and NT to do some some stocktaking.
It seems a lot of the mining equipment had legs and just seemed to disappear at the wrong/right moment. It generally involved a car chase trying to get it back.
When he had the Petrol Outlets and despite all his money he had a little office at the back of one where he also ate and slept and did all his "sums".
