garagist

The hire car was broken down, so the garagist lent us the works car, which was covered in advertisements, but at 20 quid per day, one could hardly complain.

Managers, employees, shop-keepers, garagists, restaurant- owners, the "bed-and-breakfast" brigade, holiday tinkerers, the retired and the British are now so numerous in the countryside that there remain less than a dozen cantons in the whole of France where farmers and their families are in the majority.