I joined Rolls-Royce's Mulliner Park Ward division in 1973, worked on many a Corniche DHC and FHC (including the last ever FHC ever built), restored 20/25s, 25/30s, Phantoms, Silver Wraiths, Silver Clouds and Silver Shadows and was fortunate enough to be one of the team that prepared HM the Queen's 1977 ceremonial Phantom VI, presented by the British motor industry to commemorate the Silver Jubilee of her accession to the throne and to demonstrate the summit of the coachbuilder's art
I also worked at Hoopers on some of the most exotic and luxuriously equipped R-R Silver Spirit conversions for the for the Middle East and Far East before setting up LCC in 1986.

Among our staff Andy Linton, for example, joined Mulliner Park Ward with me and accumulated 19 years' experience of building Phantom VI woodwork before joining LCC in 1992.