[8][9] In 1924 he was appointed as the Chief Engineer for the river crossings of the Scottish area of the Central Electricity Board (CEB, which existed from 1926 to 1947).
In the 1930s the company built steel-lattice towers for the new National Grid and for the Chain Home transmitters.
The electrical cable was often supplied by Pirelli UK of Eastleigh in Hampshire (now Prysmian Group).
The Air Ministry had contacted the company to build two test radar transmitters, one on the south coast, and one on Orkney.
[12] Babcock Networks, its successor, is situated off the M1 at Sherwood Park at Annesley, next to E.ON UK; its training base is at the former RAF Newton in Nottinghamshire.