About 10 years ago, he retired from a heavy industry company that made and repaired steel in quarries and cement plants.
“I retired and was a little bored and in tears. My nephew had a business friend in Braintree who built model tanks as a hobby,” he said.
“I went and looked. Anyway, I bought a model tank from Armortek.
“It comes in thousands of bits. You put it all together and it’s a remote control.
“I think I got enough information to make the tank transporter the same scale as I was tinkering, and the tank sits in the back.
“I finished the tank and started building articulated trailers and then truck parts.
“I’m basically a draftsman and I consider myself an engineering draftsman by trade, so many years ago I got a lot of drawings from Scammell and was able to make drawings out of them.
“Some of the parts that obviously had to be made were made by the previous company, some were made by other machine shops, and then we bought all the drives. .”