Len Southward

Sir Leonard Bingley Southward OBE (20 September 1905 – 19 February 2004) was a New Zealand engineer, businessman, and vehicle collector.

[2] His father was Philip Edmond Southward and his mother was Elizabeth Sarah née Smith.

He received his education at Te Aro Primary School and aged 13, he started working.

[3][4] Shortages during World War II led him as an engineer to build and use his own steel tubing machinery.

After Southward's death, it was run by family members until being sold in 2006 to what is now Amari Metals Australia.