Today, twenty years ago, Margaret and I flew from London Gatwick airport on one way tickets, emigrating to USA! After landing we were driven to our home for the next few months, a house that is part of the company property in Essex, MA. Here are a few photos from that time – not the exact day, but good enough (back then, taking photos was not as simple!)
This is Chris Golden, Christian Peyla and myself, when the development JLG eBoom vehicle was delivered; the flat slab behind us is where eventually the companies new office was built.
When PG Trionic Inc took over the property, it had this house with a side building. Initially, Margaret and I moved into the house, and the office was the side building. PGT also used some of the house. As the company prospered, we first extended the side building, and eventually built todays big office building in the back of the property – but this picture is before all that!
Of course also a younger Margaret and Ian!
The blue Astro van was the companies trash haulage vehicle for a while (it was also transport for Margaret and I when we first arrived in USA); after a few weeks, we bought our first USA car, a Ford Contour. You can see too in this last picture that the rear of the property was just dirt (we eventually had it landscaped). You can also see a JLG scissor vehicle near the house (our test machine for the original product we developed, that enabled the creation of the company, and our emigration!)
M&I / GBMINI 
It’s a testament to both Christian and yourself of the confidence in each other! Know you said that at times you flew by the seat of your pants but that’s how good businesses go forward. Congratulations to all involved and long my it go on.
Interesting to look back and see what a success you two have made of your US lives