I have been mucking about with machinery since my first Meccano set as a child, the great thing about that stuff is it doesn’t normally melt when you set fire to things, ahem, unlike Lego, I discovered. After studying engineering at Exeter Collage (where I would lecture 20 years later!) I progressed to Warwick Uni where I studied ‘controlling things with computers and doing hard maths’. This lead swiftly to having to get a proper job, as luck would have it Ford needed some fresh minds so off I went to Dunton. After six years, and becoming a chartered engineer, I set out on my own offering contract engineering to the world of automotive dreams.
I have had the privilege of working all over Europe with a variety of companies including Bentley, Jaguar, Land Rover, and a range of small manufacturers and race teams (many of which no one has heard of!).
I have written technical articles for magazines such as Evo, Practical Performance Car, Practical Classics, Full Throttle and Classics Monthly as well as the occasional TV appearance including Supercar Megabuild, Mission Ignition, Scrapyard Supercar and Born Mechanic.
Currently I manage four companies from our main site in Bedfordshire UK, RHEL building amazing special vehicles, Motor Skills Training delivering practical skills training, ZEEbus converting buses to EV and the Steadfast Motor Company which is developing a coach built series of specials.
I am a chartered engineer, a member of the Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI), a member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) and a member of the Guild of Motoring Writers.
There are now more letters after his name than there are in it
R.Hosier B.Eng(Hons) C.Eng MIET MIMI MGoMW