A "dedicated and passionate" Mansfield man is retiring from an engineering company after 60 years of service. Mick Northing has worked at Boneham, a leading manufacturer and supplier of tooling and precision-engineered components, since 1963.
Mick started at the Sutton in Ashfield-based company at 15 years old, having seen the business on his trips into Nottingham on the bus. Mick said: "We were passing this iconic building and it had massive letters on top saying 'Boneham and Turner's Limited Precision Engineers'. I thought what does precision mean? So I looked it up in the dictionary and it meant exact. So I thought oh I want to be an exact engineer."
He later found out his uncle had previously worked at the business which started his interest in Boneham. Following an advert in the local paper, Mick applied for an apprentice at the company where he had an interview with the current director's grandfather.
