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On the '''23rd November 1978''' Peter Sutcliffe was seen again by [http://crimehub.co.uk/index.php?title=Detective_Constable_Peter_Smith_-_Yorkshire_Ripper_Inquiry Detective Constable Smith] who obtained details of his Building Society account in connection with the £5 inquiry. Smith also visited the new owners of the red Corsair and obtained a description of the tyres, which were new, having apparently been fitted after the vehicle had changed hands.
During the '''autumn of 1979''' senior detectives of the Greater Manchester Police decided to re-activate the £5 note inquiry in an attempt to detect the [http://crimehub.co.uk/index.php?title=Jean_Jordan_-_Yorkshire_Ripper_Victim Jordan] and [http://crimehub.co.uk/index.php?title=Vera_Millward_-_Yorkshire_Ripper_Victim Millward] murders. With the full co-operation of the Bank of England and the Midland Bank they were able, by experiment, to eliminate several firms as possible recipients of the £5 note.
There had, of course, always been the possibility that the £5 note had been paid to a customer cashing a cheque at a bank but, on the balance of probabilities, it seemed most likely that the note had been included in money drawn for wages by one of only a few firms in the area. The total number of employees to be seen in this resurrected inquiry was a readily manageable 241. Sutcliffe was number 76 on the list, being 44th 49 employees from the firm of T & W.H. Clark Ltd.