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I served my apprenticeship with Northern Trawlers at Grimsby , Lincs. first on steam and later on what was ,then, new diesel trawlers.. went to Merchant Navy from 1950 to 56 , couldn't settle after trying work at Steelworks & Rolls Royce aero engines and left to South Africa in 62. Much more interesting work with personal freedom to work without Unions.main jobs were building Power Stations , main and standby . Went to Zambia , heading a maint team on Diesel Electric locos, Canada next with Canadian Pacific Rail, Fell out with US unions , back to SA and on to Malawi. Became maint engineer with ESCOM with 5 power stations , all black labour force, few europeans, sited and commisioned new P/S at Kasungu near presidents palace, expanded P/S at Capitol City Lilongwe with Ruston 16atc gen set,.
On leave in UK when asked to come to Aust. More P/S work in NW of WA on iron ore mines.
Invited to go to Christmas Island , 2 P/S there, installed and commisioned 20 Cyl 2 stroke power pack (largest in Southern Hemisphere at the time) and 7 years later came to WA to retire.

Son drives a rig of Mack Titan prime mover, (Cat 600 hp) , quad trailers , all side tippers , allup weight of 145 tonnes , building new port at Karatha WA.
Cheerio from me at Waikiki Western Australia.