What is your trade

[Richard Farrant]

Started off as an apprentice Agricultural Machinery engineer with a Massey Ferguson main dealer, mainly on tractors and combine harvesters and a bit of plant. After 7 years the company closed the depot so I changed jobs and went to work at a large army workshops (REME) just down the road. I had initially applied for an apprenticeship there. Worked on heavy plant, cranes, trucks, armour, rebuilding engines, you name it we did it. I worked there for 22 years, last 6 years as chargehand of my vehicle section. The workshop closed as it was in the path of a new railway so I decide to go it alone and start my own business, FV Restorations & Repairs, doing repair work on collectors military vehicles, starting off mobile and going out doing repairs. My goal was to do restoration work which I was able to start after a year or so. Have been doing this since 1996 now and it is very satisfying and you make contact with some very interesting people.
This year is now my 39th year of full time working on military vehicles.

regards, Richard