HBPW is fast becoming the engineering company with some of the best kept secrets in Britain!
Managing Partner, Paul Withers’ latest assignment involved a collection of classic sports cars worth millions of pounds. “David Randall at Turnstyle Construction installed the equivalent of an insulated white wall into a rather large shed, doubling as a huge garage to an even larger collection of elite motors,” said Paul.
“He asked HBPW to design the structure to enable the suspension of insulated panels from the existing building roof, a fitting interior for this wonderful collection, and certainly better than an asbestos and cement clad shed! For obvious reasons I can only say that the work took me to Lincolnshire and that Jeremy Clarkson would have been jealous. There was some really Top Gear in there!”
Last year Paul was sworn to secrecy when he was asked to convert an old bus garage into a high security storage facility ‘Down South’, a euphemism for south of Retford!
The result was a highly secure, multi compartmental facility which is temperature and humidity controlled, so that high value items such as silverware and paintings can be safely stored by top collectors!
And fellow Partner, Emyr Parry, was called on to remain tight lipped when Jaguar invited him to their specially mocked up showroom complete with cars, at a secretly located warehouse.
“I got to see what I was about to design before I’d even put pen to paper!” said Emyr at the time. He was a given a VIP tour of the facility and was able to get a bird’s eye view of what Jaguar expected his drawings to deliver.
Paul Withers added: “Sometimes it is impossible to give a location or even reveal engineering specifications for obvious reasons. I am not your typical 007, other than in the looks department, but discretion is fast becoming my middle name!”