In Europe you will find our buildings in Norway, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Spain, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Bosnia‑Herzegovina, Albania and Italy. France especially has hundreds of our industrial and agricultural buildings including 3 hangars and workshops erected in 1921 for Louis Bleriot the famous aviation pioneer. We have been making Aircraft Hangars to jumbo size ever since. In 1940 we supplied several dozen emergency hospitals to the British Expeditionary Forces, some of which we still keep discovering in use for all sorts of purposes. All over Germany we have erected many large, modern, factory buildings. In Russia, at Uralkali in the Ural Mountains, we provided a large brick factory and supervised the complete erection and cladding and recently shipped 5 cold store buildings Ro/Ro via Denmark on German and Russian trucks to St Petersburg. The same day a fully sound proofed generator building was trucked out on Polish vehicles to Zawierce in Poland. We recently sent 64 trucks to the Czech Republic with a complete factory building of 184,000 sq ft for making capacitors. This was closely followed by several industrial buildings to Latvia and Kazakhstan.

  In North Africa our structures are in Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Libya, Somalia, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco. Even in the little Moroccan port of Larache, some 50 miles down the African coast from Tangier, there are 18 of our buildings used as hangars, go‑downs and customs houses.

  In the Gulf States of Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Fujeira, Sharjah and Ras AI Khaimah, countless of our buildings are in use as warehouses, aircraft hangars, military or police workshops, and offices. We recently designed and made the new Emirates Airlines hangar and Air Cargo Terminal for Dubai International Airport. We also designed and made a 48m clear span and two 18m, 16 sided domes for a Majlis (Parliament) building in the Gulf, as well as the big Police Motor Workshop, VIP car park and many school buildings in Qatar. In Oman we supplied the Land Rover showroom and workshop, several Government training centres and warehouses.

  In Saudi Arabia our buildings have even found their way into the Holy City of Medina where there is a bus terminal complete with cleaning plant and office block, all of which were erected by Egyptian contractors without our help. At Jeddah there are many of our portal structures and a large multi‑storey building which contains offices, flats and a shopping centre.

  All the main airlines have offices there. At Riyadh there are many industrial buildings, in particular a large glass reinforced cement panel factory amounting to 323 shipping tonnes sent onwards by truck from Jeddah and successfully erected without problems by local contractors. On the East Coast at Damman there is an impressive shopping complex whose Arabic arches are a well known and much imitated landmark, with other subsidiary buildings, as well as a government training establishment

incorporating 12 of our buildings amongst the first to be imported into the Kingdom.

  In Iraq our portal structures have reached Baghdad, Kirkuk and Basra as oil company workshops, wellhead stores, generator stations and offices. Northwards to the Caspian Sea Port of Baku in Azerbaijan we made the com­plete structure for a new BMW showroom. Cross the border to Iran and you will find another of our buildings in that ancient city of Tabriz. In Jordan we supplied and supervised the erection at Wadi‑el‑Yabis of one of the biggest Horticultural distribution centres in the Middle East.

  In Yemen we have supplied over 30 substantial buildings for use as factories, cold stores, workshops and port transit sheds mainly for Ministries and Public Corporations in the South and in the North we have provided many large factory buildings and workshops as well as agricultural buildings for chicken hatcheries, dairy product stores, a baby‑feed factory, a gas bottling plant at Taiz and a pharmaceutical factory with warehouses in Sana'a.

  In Eritrea, on the Red Sea, a number of our lattice portals were used to build a large agricultural school in 1934, while in Ethiopia, on the single‑track railway line from AddisAbaba to Djibouti, the steel framework and cladding for every one of the 22 railway stations was supplied by us in 1936. This line, in 1984, carried 1,000 tonnes of our steel buildings for 20 large grain stores to help with famine relief at Nazareth in Ethiopia.

  We were back in Djibouti again 47 years later to erect a generating station, bottling plant and associated buildings in the Gulf of Tadjoarah. Our engineer lived in a mud dwelling with a French crocodile hunter, an Ethiopian and an Eritrean, no air conditioning but several scorpions and snakes. There was almost no water but they managed with beer.

  In 1990 we shipped a large number of produce store buildings through Djibouti

destined for Sudan, 25 for Gezira, 11 for Rahad, 8 for new Halfa and 3 for Suki. For Kenana Sugar Company of Khartoum we supplied two large warehouses and associated buildings.

  We have recently been to Somalia building warehouses, offices and workshops at Berbera and Mogadishu for the United Nations Relief Organisation. Berbera was the home of the Barbary pirates of 200 years ago and, amongst other things a base for RAF Spitfires during World War 2. In Kenya we made the workshop at Kifaru Camp for the army.

  Almost every trip overseas has its interesting times, like being jailed for opening our own bolt crates, having fried cucumber for breakfast lunch and dinner every day and shaving with Coca Cola, as well as being held up by bandits and by the Police!

  In Sri‑Lanka we supplied and supervised the erection of 6 rice stores for the Paddy Marketing Board, starting on sites at Maragahawewa (in the Wipatu National Park) and Huruluwewa near Anuradhapura, that fascinating ancient capital city and religious centre. The work was interrupted on the site at Adampan for a short period because of a thoughtless chap who waded across at low tide from India and brought cholera with him.

  Further up the Indian sub‑continent we shipped a new paint factory to Bangalore. For Bangladesh we recently supplied 18,000M˛ of warehousing for the Port of Chittagong in spite of the efforts of sundry typhoons to disrupt the work.

  Our warehouses, factories and assembly halls have been erected as far away as Rarotonga, that tiny paradise isle in the South Pacific 1,633 miles N.E. of New Zealand and 12,434 miles from London Docks, while 1,400 miles to the West a warehouse and market building is to be found in Fiji and a further 900 miles west in New Caledonia there are trading stations and warehouses supplied by us so long ago we can't remember when.

  During 1988 we designed and made steelwork for the two 180ft spans of the 360ft Ngalimbu bridge in the Solomon Islands financed by British Aid from the Overseas Development Administration and ordered by the Crown Agents. They also ordered a large workshop and crane for Santo in the Vanuatu group of islands (New Hebrides). Our first two buildings for Santo were for the French Oil Research station in 1965. They were erected within 14 weeks of leaving our works. In 1987/88 we shipped 2 big workshops complete with overhead cranes, for the P.W.D.

  New Zealand has 395 of our buildings, including a small country‑town church and in Australia our structures can be found