Thirty-four years ago Duncan Frazer sold everything he owned — including his house, car and even his fridge — in an attempt to breathe life into the business his father had launched shortly before he died. It was the right decision.
His father, Robert, had set up a successful plastics business, having realised the material’s potential when he was an engineer in the Second World War working with bouncing-bomb inventor Sir Barnes Wallis. His task had been to find a safer alternative to the glass used in the machine gun turrets on Wellington and Lancaster bombers. The plastic windows he helped develop saved gunners’ lives because they did not shatter into deadly shards when fired on by German fighter planes.
Many decades later, a friend