The author, the son and grandson of Welsh mining engineers, migrated to Western Australia from the UK in early 1949. Most of that year was spent at the blue asbestos town of Wittenoom Gorge. He graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering with honours in 1961 from the University of Western Australia after having worked down the coal mines at Collie and in State Electricity Commission power stations. Leaving the SEC, he built four particle board factories including the largest in Australia at the time at Dardanup in the south west of Western Australia. Next he jointly founded a public Venture Capital company, Westintec Limited, and built an aero-engine turbine blade factory at Canning Vale near Perth in a 50/50 partnership with Rolls Royce Plc (UK). He was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for the services to the manufacturing industry and the community in 1994. His next move was to form a company to build a factory to produce super alloys for the aero-space industry in a 50/50 partnership with Pratt and Whitney and Wyman Gordon of the United States. Subsequently he became chairman of the South West Development Commission and retired in 2003 to his 1000 acre beef farm on two locations, one in the Ferguson Valley and the other on the Collie Coalfields Highway in the South West of Western Australia.

ISBN 0 85905 357 1

(2004 New), 61 pp illustrated soft cover A4, 540 grams, $30.00 + POST