We're a family business, of course, but we had to look about for new blood

"OUR BUSINESS has been a one- family concern since it started. I can't remember that any of our key- positions, from junior executives upward, has ever been filled by someone outside the family or friends. "On balance this method of staffing has served pretty well. But we hadn't foreseen what we'd come up against these last two years, back again in peacetime production. Almost at once we were needing to double output with nothing like the requisite new plant in sight. That meant revising schedules, reorganizing, speeding the works up generally.