L.T.C Rolt, a biographer of our great engineers and author of many books on the history of engineering, here tells of his childhood in Chester on the Welsh border near Hay on Wye and in Gloucestershire; Of an engineering apprenticeship and career which took him from a farm in the Vale of Evesham to a locomotive works in Stoke on Trent, and from Dursley to the Wiltshire Downs, until he finally settled in a Hampshire village running a garage which specialised in veteran and vintage cars.