Charles worked at wool-scouring in Milton and gold-mining at Table Hill, Blue Spur and then Bendigo, all in Otago.
Todd was effectively managing director (his father, Charles had the formal title), responsible for the entire factory and assembly operation.
In 1970, the company acquired the Mitsubishi franchise[8] when planning for New Zealand's biggest assembly plant was under way and in 1975 Todd Park was opened at Porirua.
[9] Todd had the special quality of engaging personally with all those he met from the Prime Minister to the newest worker on the line.
He was a good Catholic, not just on Sundays; he tried to live up to the precepts of Pope Leo XII's encyclical Rerum novarum.