It's good to read your stories on how you became fork lift techs, I started of in the motor trade with a big dealership in the 1960s as a motor veh electrician, working in different departments ranging from accident repair to commercial vehicles even working in the fuel injection pump overhaul shop, yes I remember splill pipe timing and micrometers and going to night school and all those friends I made in the trade.When I was 22 I started work for an agricultural merchant with 108 commercial vets to look after and a fleet of reps cars, but we were heading into the 70s and inflation was affecting the pound in ones pocket, two years with Farmway and I needed to move on to increase my earnings along came globe and Simpsons auto electrical and fuel injection engineers, so I was then working on every type of vehicle that had wheels you could think of, but inflation was the beast that ravaged my pocket, Ted Heath was priminster we had the three day week power cuts. I noticed a forklift engineers job in the paper working for Eaton Materials Handling manufacturer of the Yale lift truck, I got the job and the rest as they say is history doubled my wages more money than I could spend, 35 years down the road and Mr Briggs happened. That's when I decided it was time to retire. I can say that was the best 35 yrs of my life being my own boss working from home my nearest depot a 100 miles away left to organise my own work load it was good.

Regards Titus