HARVEY MACINTYRE ON GLYN DAVIES
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When Harvey MacIntyre struck out on his own to start MacIntyre Transport in 2000, he first bought a handful of lorries from Davies, his former employer.
“I bought five second-hand vehicles, but I didn’t have enough money to pay for all of them,” he says. “But Glyn let me have all five and I paid for four.” MacIntyre says the lessons he learned working under Davies remain valuable and that the performance tables referred to by Davies as being critical to a company’s success are the template relied upon by his alumni even now.
“A lot goes back to the apprenticeship we all served at Russell Davies,” he adds.
“There’s almost a subliminal voice in the back of your head saying: ‘Would Glyn approve of this?’ “He was iconic and you are often wondering ‘what would Glyn think?’”