Meden Vale Engineering Company Ltd was originally set up in 1972 After some redundancies at another local toolmakers,

Maurice Vann who was in management position, running the business, took his redundancy money, borrowed an amount from his dad and dad in law,

set about contacting some of the other lads that had been made redundant, found some premises to rent, and the rest as they say is history.

Having customer contacts, who had become friends over the years, a number of who wanted to stay with Maurice. If he could get a small business started, starting work would almost be guaranteed