By Paul Bentley PUBLISHED: 16:09 EST, 18 October 2013 | UPDATED: 16:51 EST, 18 October 2013 He's clearly a sharp dresser with his own distinct style. And if you heard him speak, his cockney accent would be as broad as the River Thames. This is Derek Hockley, the wheeler-dealer who David Jason has revealed he took as his inspiration when playing Del Boy in Only Fools and Horses. As well as draping himself in gold jewellery and wearing a camel-hair coat, Mr Hockley regularly told his family ‘we’re going to be millionaires’ and had the swagger of an ‘I’m-a-Mr-Someone-Special’. Inspiration: Derek Hockley, left, gave David Jason the pattern for his inspiration in playing Derek Trotter, right, and he picked up on many of Hockley's mannerisms, and imitated his dress sense
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Derek Hockley gave David Jason work when he was an East End electrician
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He remembered him when reading early versions of the Only Fools and Horses script and thought 'I know this man'
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Incorporated his mannerisms and dress sense into the part of Del Boy
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Mr Hockley's daughter Jan Wilson has provided pictures of her father to the Mail, who was delighted with the imitation
Wheeler-dealer: Mr Hockley, like @placeholder, was always on the look-out for a way to make money