Kevin Loughrey

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"Helping others to have a future assures our own."

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Past Projects


This section of the webpage deals with a number of the major and successful projects undertaken by me over a period of nearly 40 years.  In many instances, these projects would not have had a successful outcome were it not for the help of some pretty exceptional people.  I learnt early in my life, that success requires teamwork and successful teams are comprised of people who excel in different areas of human endeavour and have vastly different personality types.  Because of this difference there is plenty of opportunity for friction.  To overcome that it is necessary they have a common objective that over-rides personal differences.  It is also necessary these personalities, who often are so different they would not normally associate with each other, have a leader who is capable of mediating quarrels, accommodating difficult people where appropriate and firm in requiring that everyone work effectively towards the common aim.  My first Warrant Officer, David Hampshire made sure I knew that!  If you can team up with people who are different to you but have a common aim, chances are you will achieve a result better than you could ever achieve by yourself.

For example: I have spent some considerable time acknowledging the essential contributions of others.  That is only the short list.  There have been many more to whom I owe a debt of gratitude.  The following webpages are as much about the people who helped me to succeed as they are about the achievements themselves. 

It is also noteworthy that, with only a few exceptions, all of these projects had their share of naysayers.  People who could only see difficulties.  People who would say that things had been done before so why "reinvent the wheel" or this or that has been tried before and it had failed.  In every instance, by doing things again, new ideas emerged making an old idea better.  In the case of things that had failed in the past, they had failed not because the idea itself was intrinsically faulty but because some other factor had come into play causing that past attempt to fail.  Lastly, having set out to invent something, I have invariably found that much of what I had originally conceived was not perfect or, in some instances even practical.  Ideas and designs changed as I pressed ahead.  People provided me with invaluable counsel and I learnt from my many mistakes.  Thomas Edison once said words to the effect that invention is, "10% inspiration and 90% perspiration!" and Barnes Wallace held the view that, "The best way to invent something new was not to know much about the subject in the first place!".  My father gave me the most valuable advice of all when he told me, "An ounce of persistence beats a ton of talent!".  How right they were.  So click on the buttons to the left and I hope what you find makes for interesting reading.

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