Celia, Penny, Victoria and Richard Buswell
Before university he worked for a year for Morganite Resistors and was involved in the testing of power resistors for the electricity supply industry. Following university he worked for Mullard Ltd as a development engineer working on power triacs and thyristors.
In the 1970s he worked for a year in Switzerland on broadcast television - preparing material and keeping a batch of cameras and VTRs running.
In 1980 Richard helped set up AEC Microtechnology Ltd, which manufactured printed circuit boards. This involved ringing up lots of people and finding out exactly how to make plated-through circuit boards, and the experience proved valuable for the next step, which was a venture into business.
Buswell Machine Electronics was set up in 1981, and the rest, they say is history.
Richard has practised Transcendental Meditation since 1971, and is also a teacher. He plays the piano, though not well enough to threaten the day job, and has a wife and two musical daughters - one plays the harp and the other the violin.
Both grandfathers were woodworkers, and perhaps as a result of this and inheriting many tools has come a love of making things in wood. Making and renovating the harps was a great joy because musical instruments combine the art of music with the beauty of wood and the technology of machinery.
Richard loves everything to do with photographs and images, especially film/video, which dates from the time in television production and a childhood 9.5 mm film projector.
The three loves are the great outdoors, freedom and being one's own boss!
Celia, Penny, Victoria and Richard Buswell
Celia met and married Richard in 1981 and is a partner in the firm of Buswell Machine Electronics.