Born and educated in Scunthorpe, Trevor joined the then Firth Brown Castings (FBC) as a methods clerk on leaving school. Over the next few years he succeeded in becoming senior foundry technician and gained his HNC in Metallurgical Studies. In the early 1980s Trevor lead the introduction of alkaline phenolic binder technology into FBC, which was one of the first foundries in the UK to use this technology.…