[BITList] build!

[HUGH]

Colin,

I recognise the type of project in question, though I've only ever been on 
the fringes of such.  Usually they start off as a "it would be a good idea 
to have a go at" type of project.  Kincaid at one point dallied (they called 
it a project, and it had a project leader) with power station work with 
Werkspoor engines.  The man in charge had been moved sideways from Chief in 
the DO (he was a very competent marine engineer) for being hard to handle, 
and I was seconded to work with him for much the same reason. I didn't move 
from my desk/board/work station. There were lots of meetings and phone calls 
to the Netherlands and I did a few diagrams.  Eventually I reached 
disillusion and drifted back to my previous job and nobody noticed, not even 
the project leader.  That was all down to the sort of top staff that started 
to come into the industry in the late 80s.  A firm chock full of real 
engineers was being led by anything but with very neat desks.  Finally it 
was headed by asset strippers and its assets got stripped.  Now it exists in 
the name of a care home that occupies a corner of the site - Kincaid Gate. 
I think we are supposed to rejoice in the name being preserved.

Hugh.