William Kilburn Fox, known to everyone as Bill, has passed away at the age of 81. Perhaps best known as the founder and former managing director of M1 Engineering, Bill can also lay claim to being one of the pioneers in the development of intermodal tank containers.
Bill joined the Royal Air Force in 1937 at the age of 15 as an apprentice fitter armourer. In the early years of World War II, he worked with the ground crews responsible for keeping the planes in the air and, on being posted to North Africa in 1941, he served at the air bases supporting Montgomery’s “Desert Rats.” During the North African campaign and in later service in Italy, Bill and his colleagues retrieved crashed aircraft, doing whatever had to be done to make them airworthy. The engineering skills acquired in the war years were to stand Bill in good stead in his subsequent career....
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