I have read with great interest the details regarding Cox and Wright.

I worked there from 1968, becoming sales manager in 1976. Along with my colleague, Rennie Houghton, I was instrumental in developing the general industries cutting division which carried the company in its latter years after the demise of the UK shoe industry.

In 2000 I set up Global Cutting Technologies which imports high tech cutting systems which we distribute to [what is left of] manufacturing industry in the UK.

We also rebuild some of the more recent Cox and Wright die cutting machines and employ a number of ex-Cox and Wright personnel.

I am very proud to have worked at Cox and Wright for all those years and the methods and values which were instilled into me remain to this day.