Company Director: Rod Murphy

WORKING HISTORY

First Overseas Contract:
Roberts Construction Civil Engineers.
C/o Moore and Stephensons Chartered Accountants, Bucklesbury House, Bucklesbury, London.

Engaged on electrical installations in Bloemfontain Orange Free State on contracts for Dunlop, Coca-Cola, Carlton Hotel Group, S.A.B.C. stations.

During the five year contract, part of my contract was on Hydro Electric Stations (installation at the Cobora Bassa Project in Mozambique). The Hendrick Veervodt Dam and Fish Water Tunnel Project to supply water from Natal province to the Free State and the Kalahari Desert in conjunction with this project we crossed over to South West Africa to Oshakati to project the Recarno Falls Dam Hydro Scheme on the border of South West Africa and Angola for the Orange River Project incorporating both British, French and Italian Civil Engineers.

On returning to the UK I was engaged on a new contract with B. French Electrical Engineers Kidderminster. This was to work on large electrical projects at Pilkington Bros. Glass Plant in St Helens and the Design Laboratory at Lathorn plus the Fibre Glass Plant and UK 5 Greengate Computerised Plant St. Helens. Two years of this contract were spent working on the Science Research Council at Harwell site installation in Berkshire, controlling part of the injector which proved to have been an interesting project to be involved with.

After moving to reside in Warrington Cheshire, I took a contract with A.Monk & Co. Civil Engineers at Padgate and was responsible for the electrical installation and maintenance of Monk Concrete Structures. This involved projects such as the construction of the Daresbury Tower, Lower Newton Jail, County Durham and Warrington Golden Square Project plus various motorway projects in and around Milton Keynes and Birmingham.

Having a need to be closer to home base I signed a contract for Claremont Business Systems, Birchwood and embarked on a new stage of computer and data installations ie Digital, IBM, Prime and ICL for customers such as National Westminster Bank, Stewart Wrightsons Insurance, Glasgow and the CIS Manchester together with the related electrical installations which enabled George Arnold Electrical Ltd to come together with a new contract with DCD Communications Ltd.