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INTERVIEW·WHITE DWARF 518

The Next 50 Years…

November 2025·p. 27

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Tony closes the anniversary retrospective by distinguishing technological change from the continuity of the people behind the hobby. Better organisation, computers and manufacturing tools have replaced much of the improvisation of the early years, but he argues that the company’s real inheritance is the combined work of many generations of skilled, enthusiastic staff rather than a single founding personality.

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