[1] Benson was a fighter pilot during World War II, and later worked on the design of early British missiles.

The new company was successful, as it filled a niche designing systems that were used to provide data input and output to and from the early computers.

Two photo-mechanical engineers, Guy Hearon and Harry Katt, were hired, who designed a series of 16mm, 35mm, and 70mm high speed cameras and accessories.

[3] In 1961, Benson was one of the first people to warn against the privacy risks raised by computers, claiming that digital data could one day be fed into a single system, leaving individuals at the mercy "of who or what controls the machine".

Early in the 1960s, Benson retired and moved to France, where he purchased the Chateau de Chaban located in the Dordogne.