First job was with Samuel Jones Ltd manufacturer of tape guidance machinery and fire extinguisher equipment manufacturer, used to extinguish fires in underground carriage’s to aircraft at airports. This business was purchased by Chubb Fire.I moved on to Irwin Desman Ltd in the design office and worked on a variety of technical design details on projects, for a variety of clients. MOD FVRDE Chobham. Chieftain tank mobile drawbar test rig & detail design of Scorpion tank.Rutherford Appleton Laboratory as part of the team to detail design a Muon detector for the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron.Goonhilly satellite radio dish.Fry's Metals 10Ton rotary furnace on a 6 month contract in 1974.At the end of the contract, I became a permanent employee of Fry's Metals Ltd then part of the Lead Industries Group, later to become Cookson Plc and finally divested, to become Alent Plc.