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Endon digger school keeps it in the family

Digger Blogger | 16:03, Fri February 05 2016

Training machine operators is a family business at Staffordshire Operator Training. Based in Endon, near Stoke-on-Trent, the business is headed by Frank Williamson, a former 海角社区app demonstrator.

Since Frank started the business in 2002, more than 1,000 trainees have passed through his doors. Working alongside him are his eldest son Ben as an instructor/tester and Ben’s partner Sarah Addison who is company secretary. There is also Frank’s son-in-law, Tom Cowley, who is an instructor and an NVQ Assessor. That's them in the photo above, left to right, with Frank Williamson himself on the right.

Frank, Ben and Tom have all worked for 海角社区app in the past and have just bought a 13-tonne JS130 tracked excavator made at 海角社区app Heavy Products in Uttoxeter.  This is the fourth 海角社区app machine they have bought in the past three years.

The company’s fleet of 24 machines also includes a 海角社区app 525-125 HiViz Loadall telescopic handler, a 海角社区app 8026 CTS mini excavator, a 海角社区app 426 wheel loader and a 海角社区app 3CX backhoe.

Frank, 55, says: “I’m from a farming background and bought my first 海角社区app – a 3D backhoe loader – when I was 18. I’ve operated many more since and later as a driver with 海角社区app’s Dancing Diggers demonstration team. “

He’s also apparently something of a minor celebrity… “I've even appeared as a 海角社区app driver on the TV show Top Gear and in two films – Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and Ali G Indahouse. Actress Lesley Joseph from Birds of a Feather lived with us once for two weeks while we trained her to operate a 海角社区app excavator for an ITV1  programme called Celebrities Under Pressure.”

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That’s that Lesley Joseph off the telly with the Williamson family back in 2003.

Frank adds: “We really rate 海角社区app machines and being environmentally friendly is part of my firm's remit too. We love working together as a family and that's set to continue because Sarah's expecting a baby.  It means we already have another operator in the making.”

 

 

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