Businesses

I am now retired but there are a number of businesses with which I have been connected in one way or another.

Included in the ones that come immediatyely to mind are:-

Caledonian Wholesalers Limited
Caldo Products Limited
Calleader Limited
Winkworth Distributors (Bridgwater) Limited
Dorai Replicas Limited
Thomas Shaw Limited
Metalcraft Limited
New Replicas Limited
Booth and Robinson Engineering Co Limited
Matthew Clark Holdings plc
Rigby and Evens Limited
Wm. and Jno Lockett Limited
Crokerton Limited
Free Trade Inns Limited
Finsbury Distillery Limited
I. H. Baker Pty
Saga Films Limited
Saga Records Limited
Triumph Records Limited
RGM Sound Limited
Freeman, Sutton and Co
Learoyd and Calvery
McDonald Currie and Co
Deloitte Plender Griffiths
Fincham Roberts and Co
Harper Broom Roberts and Co
H. W. Fisher and Co
Herbert Reeves and Co
Henry Boustred and Sons
Sidney G. Chick Limited
Lexel Lamb Limited
Lorie Banks Limited
Whittlesford Engineering Limited
Saffron International Limited
Jefferson West One Limited
Kai Ming Limited

As a chartered accountant I was concerned with the audit of many famous companies whose names I cannot mention.

I was commissioned to undertake a review of research and develoment cost control for a government. It was fascinating and I developed a unique graphical reporting method which was still in use many years later and which now has many incarnations in widely diverse trades.

Interesting people whith whom I have had contact include:-

Sir Guy Densem.
Sir Richard Lockett
The Gordon Clark family
The Maxwell - Bishop family
The Boustred family
Major W. A. Banks
Harry Simmonds Chick
Robert George Meek (Joe Meek)

The lists are not exchaustive and more details and names will be added in due course.

Dorai was in Artificial; Flowers, Fancy Goods and Housewares./ Agents for Curver plastics and Giovenzana.
We introduced the dustbin on wheels to the UK Market