• Question: what got you involved in engineering?

    Asked by josh to Robin on 12 Mar 2012.
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      Robin Stafford Allen answered on 12 Mar 2012:

      ·@josh: I had the most amazing father who was an aeronautical engineer (designs aeroplanes) and was a flight engineer in the RAF in the war. He used to encourage me to take the lawnmower or the rotivator to bits and repair them, and then I had a small motorbike (BSA) and my first car when I was 12, which of course could only be driven about 50 yards as it was not, of course, allowed on the roads (it was too old and i was too young!), but I could take it to bits and put it back together to keep it going. I think this got me started, but I wanted to do something constructive like engineering from an early age. Regards Robin

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