A special project
Not long after my return from South Africa, following the demise of County Commercial Cars, I received a call from an old friend, Trevor Folland, from Twose of Tiverton. He heard I was out of a job and back in the UK.
Twose (pronounced ‘Toose’) had a relatively new project on the go and was looking for a Special Projects Manager. Twose was a long-established and well-regarded manufacturing company, based in Devon, known for its rollers, hedge trimmers and other equipment.
The Vibraject project was a massive evolution for Twose and when I arrived in Devon the project was well established. The principal design engineer of the Vibraject was Marcus Frankpit, from a Devon farming family – well placed to understand both the practical and the engineering side of this complex project. The hands-on, customer-facing side of the team was Graham Mitchell.
By the time I joined the team, the Vibraject had moved from the initial prototype to the production version. It was a very substantial machine and something of a quantum leap for Twose, which was based in the market town of Tiverton.
Vibraject, a self-propelled machine, was developed to address the issues of dealing with liquid waste, sourced from agriculture and industry, as well as human. Traditionally,
