“Dad was in the British army in WW2, was demobbed about 1946. In the early ‘fifties he moved up to Chapel-en-le Frith in Derbyshire, which is where the Ferodo factory was and was near where my mother came from. He was employed as test driver for all the Ferodo components, brakes, clutches etc, and they used to test under all conditions. In this area of Britain it got very cold in winter and was often snowed in with very treacherous roads. He soon moved to the Competition Department at Ferodo, and this department had fully equipped mobile workshops which supplied brake materials and other products. They did all the World Championship
