Oxford Instruments Started in a shed
Oxford Instruments Started in a shed
Oxford Instruments, a leading provider of high technology tools and systems for research and industry, had garden office beginnings, as Audrey and Martin Wood discuss in this video (only a couple of minutes) which you can listen to at the British Library site - below is an excerpt:
"When we started actually making things much, it was we had a shed we built a shed at the bottom of the garden to do this [laughs]. It was a completely residential area and the chairman of planning lived opposite, so when this man this retired technician used to come along and do a few jobs occasionally. And I remember one day when we had the wife of the chairman of planning to tea and I in the garden, I think it was, it would be in the summer. And I saw Joe coming and I went down to have a word with him and said, Joe, youre the gardener [laughs], if youre asked any questions."-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Oxford Instruments Started in a shed