When I left Philips I was seriously considering starting out on my own. I had assisted in developing the electromics of a system to synchronise sound to super 8mm cine film. A good friend Matt Skipp was running a photographic shop in Epsom and he had been working on it for years. 

I devised a practical system.

However a more stable income was needed so I joined Bernard Lawson who ran an electronic distributors called Lawtronics, based in Edenbridge. I stayed with him for a couple of years until my own business had built up.

Whilst with Lawtronics we developed a miniature oscilloscope we called 'the microscope' and sold a couple of hundred of them in 2 years. We also developed test instruments that we sold to RS Components and Farnell. After I left they concentrated on custom power supplies