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About Me
Left school with half a dozen O levels, but just one grade A (in art!).
Rebuilt a couple of motor bikes and thought I enjoyed it, so looked to do "Engineering"
Trained on model stationary steam engines, centrifugal pumps & small inboard petrol marine engines at Stuart Turner Ltd of Henley on Thames, a long, long time ago, when Brakespeares beer was still brewed in the town using Thames water.
Did a year at Albon Saunders, a precision engineering company in Milton Nr Didcot, contracting mainly for the nuclear industry and Culhams JET project, before I moved on to generate electricity with the CEGB on Didcot PS, when it was a new site, now, it's gone.
I was a guide during the official opening in 1975 (I think it was)
Then, via a small hydraulics operation in Bicester and Lucas Fluid Power in Coventry, I spent my last 28 years with a big American corporation, travelling the world, meeting loads of brilliant people and a very few . . . . .less brilliant, all whilst not working as hard as the corporation thought I was.
Now . . .I'm retired and volunteer for the National Trust.