SCM Group UK’s classical machinery product manager, Brian Stacey, is retiring this week after spending his working life in the manufacturing and selling of woodworking machinery.
Born in the north-east of England, Mr Stacey started as an apprentice fitter and turner at Bursgreen Durham in 1960 and also attended night school. After obtaining his apprenticeship papers he became a fitter on Bursgreen’s machine test bed before being promoted to apprentice training officer and then spare parts manager.
In the 1980s Mr Stacey moved to Nottingham to work for AL Daltons, selling new and second-hand machines and organising spare parts sales. “I learned a lot from Nigel Dalton on how to close a sale and about working for a distributor,” he said.
In 1996 he joined SCM as UK sales manager (classical machines) to work alongside SCM’s network of distributors in the UK and Ireland.
Mr Stacey said in his retirement he “will rev-up my T124 copy lathe and produce some items to sell at local craft fairs” and continue to swim and go caravanning.
