Winning Weybridge Welder
Taken from British Aerospace Insight newsletter
28th May 1980

Not many people win medals for welding - but Peter Clare has achieved this distinction. Twenty-three-year-old Peter, a welder in the Tinsmiths department at Weybridge, has just received a City & Guilds Institute silver medal. He was the top entrant in recent national welding craft practice examinations and his performance also brought a £25 first prize from the Worshipful Company of Armourers and Braisers. These honours came at the conclusion of a five-year course in advanced welding and craft practice at Kingston College of Further Education in which Peter gained distinctions in all nine subjects involved.

The equipment seen behind Peter

is a vacuum chamber used mainly for welding titanium. The workpiece is positioned inside the chamber and the operator sees and works through the 'port-holes' along either side.

About Peter

Having spent his working life in engineering, Peter has accumulated a considerable amount of experience, knowledge and expertise in welding and fabrication throughout the industry: from starting out in a back street sheet metal firm (New Era Sheet Metal Works) in New Malden, Surrey; where if you needed an unusual tool you were told to ‘make it’; to welding jumbo jet fuel lines at British Aerospace.

Taking over The Welding Shop Ltd in 1991, we have completed many varied tasks from mending frying pans and taxi parts to major rooftop chiller installations for the Prudential and erecting steel buildings.

We always do what we say we're going to do, when we say we're going to do it, and we are proud to have the highest references to support us.

Automatic orbital welding machine

Used on the VC-10 prototype tanker modifications for in-flight refuelling during my time at British Aerospace.

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