Post by alanstepney on Dec 31, 2006 19:45:17 GMT
John Wilding who has often exhibited at ME exhibitions has been awarded the MBE for his services to clockmaking.
John Wilding, 82, learned his skills serving an apprenticeship in London where he said he "did it the hard way".
He then spent four decades making clocks and photographing the process in a workshop at his Sussex home.
He said his books were aimed at amateur engineers and added: "A lay person could make them."
"When I started there was so little information on how to make a clock, I thought it was time it was made public."Every clock I make has a book on how to make it."
With 40 books to his name, Mr Wilding has published a book a year.
He said they covered "most of the basic clocks", and he had taken about two or three months to make each one.
As far as I know, he makes the third person who has been honoured for model engineer-related work.
John Wilding, 82, learned his skills serving an apprenticeship in London where he said he "did it the hard way".
He then spent four decades making clocks and photographing the process in a workshop at his Sussex home.
He said his books were aimed at amateur engineers and added: "A lay person could make them."
"When I started there was so little information on how to make a clock, I thought it was time it was made public."Every clock I make has a book on how to make it."
With 40 books to his name, Mr Wilding has published a book a year.
He said they covered "most of the basic clocks", and he had taken about two or three months to make each one.
As far as I know, he makes the third person who has been honoured for model engineer-related work.
So much more deserved than those from government departments being rewarded for just about doing their job (keeping their noses clean) 
and those for "services to pop music", "services to local government" etc. 
