David Torrance in front of BAE Systems, once Fairfield's

Skills and tools

David Torrance was a draughtsman who worked in Fairfields.

"We started on flat drawing boards, drawing with pen and ink, and when we finished we were using state of the art computers to design ships. It was quite amazing. It speeded things up. Once the databases were built up, in effect you could transfer drawing and information all over the world. They could be done any where. In effect, the amount of people they were using went down to about a quarter, in the drawing room especially."