THE EARLY WORKS
My parents got me a shed when I was a teenager. This gave me somewhere to make things which led to an apprenticeship and then engineering. Alongside making and doing a PhD, respectively, I sold records and helped set up a social enterprise called Llama Linda.
PETE’S RECORDS
1980-1983
First business.
Camden Town Market Stall, among other locations, selling new and second-hand vinyls.
EARLY WORKS
1980-1981
Backgammon & Chess box
Black beech veneer border
Demonstrating bespoke potential in CNC. The project was awarded the IMechE Institution of Mechanical Engineers’ Final Year Project Prize for the Commissioning and Use of an Integrated CAD/CAM system.
1987
1990
Frisbee Car
Fitted with a rotating disc to provide high lift and reduced drag.
D.PHIL
1991
University of Susses
“Heat transfer at the surface of a cylinder rotating in an annulus with an axial through flow of air.”
Compressor Annulus Heat Transfer Equation.
Tornado 6MW Industrial Gas Turbine Engine.
LLAMA LINDA LTD
1989-1995
Alpaca knitwear, design, production, marketing and sales. An indigenous knitting non- profit company based in Perú with the aim of providing training & employment.
Founder & Managing Director