About

John Ford

Inventor Profile

John Ford is a successful heating and plumbing engineer with over 50 years of service in this industry. Born in Stoke-on-Trent, UK, John set up a local heating and plumbing business with his then partner Ross Mainwaring back in 1971.

When Ross left the business a few years later, John took over the entire set up and decided to grow and expand the business. Over the next 30 years the business grew from strength to strength to become the area’s leading heating and engineering specialists.

Securing major contracts across many local government departments and local institutions the business became hugely successful due to the high standards of professional workmanship and the attention given to their customer’s needs.

The business is still going from strength to strength today following the same principles that John brought into the business all those years ago. www.fordmainwaring.co.uk

As well as running a successful business, John has also identified numerous gaps in the plumbing and heating market, and invented various industrial products throughout his career. The most successful of these was the creation and formation of the Holdfast Radiator Valve Tops Limited company set up to manufacture and distribute replacement universal fitting radiator valve tops across the plumbing industry. These are now found worldwide in all domestic DIY outlets as standard. http://www.holdfastradiatorvalves.co.uk/

Both companies were eventually sold when John finally decided to fulfill a long-held wish to retire and emigrate to Australia in 2009.

These days John is enjoying his retirement and can be seen regularly golfing and fishing within in his local community. However, he still likes a challenge and is still regularly working away in his shed trying to find solutions and answers to some of life’s more niggling problems.