McIntyre and Peterson

McIntyre and Peterson was a mail order catalogue company whose goods and services were obtained and used by several residents of Coronation Street in the early 1960s, despite there being something of a social stigma among the people of that time in buying things "on the tick", however Ida Barlow was one who said that credit terms were necessary in maintaining their houses in a satisfactory state as no one could afford to wait until they had surplus amounts of spare cash to buy. Along with her, Elsie Tanner, Ena Sharples, Florrie Lindley and Dennis Tanner were all customers of the company, dealing with their rep in the area, Johnny Gibson, who worked part-time in the evenings for them, collecting instalments and taking new orders from their bulky catalogue.