ABOUT US The Company was started in 1999 after many long years of working for other people, Steve's background started with a full indentured Engineering apprenticeship with British Nuclear Fuels, leading to a higher diploma in Engineering and full skills in machine tool work, sheet work, bearing work, Gas/Mig/Arc/TIG welding, mechanical skills and fitting, electrical and electronic skills, one of the true multi-skilled Engineers, after the third year it was apparent that there was a bias towards motor engineering and so the last 2 years were tailored to that degree. During the final year Steve and a few other similarly gifted Engineers were lent to Vauxhall motors in an effort to solve the camshaft production problems of the Chevette engine, this was achieved within 3 months and cured the early overheating problems. It was after this period way back in 1978 that work dried up in and around the Merseyside area and Steve was left to find work elsewhere, at that time Mitsubishi Motors were looking for fully qualified Motor Engineers for a small project they were working on, namely the electronic engine management system, it was one of Steve's remits to introduce a signal into the unit from a simple 4 point lambda probe to constantly correct the mixture of the fuel/air ratio and this was achieved in 1979 with the first engine management system introduced by Mitsubishi, all subsequent vehicles from that point carried a small amount of the original and unique code from the original box, even to this day, needless to say Steve went on to further design with Mitsubishi and was also responsible for the transfer box on the Shogun and was on the team for race preparing the Starion turbo that Colin Chapman used to race for Mitsubishi. In 1981 Steve bought his first VW and was hooked from that moment, a type 2 bay window with a 1.6ltr. air cooled engine, it was a dog of a machine but it lasted many years until in 1991 a type 25 (T3) was bought, "Genevieve" this had an updated more powerful 2.0 ltr air cooled engine, was much larger and comfier than the type 2 and everything worked well including the heater, we still have her today, we also have a 1969 1500 Beetle deluxe and a 1992 VW T4. Steve is also instrumental in starting the Type 25 owners Club "Club80-90" along with Simon Baxter they builtup this Club into a great social and technical resource, and they ran it between them for many years before it was passed on to other members to run whilst Steve and Simon went onto other things. Steve completed various contract for Government, Ministry of Defence and private corporations before making the decision to go out on his own. The passion was always with the air cooled VW flat four engine and the Porsche flat 6 engine, many weekends were spent doing "foreigners" until in 1999 it was decided to open by himself, just another garage was not the remit and with LPG on the increase as a viable alternative fuel, Steve booked and paid for a training course with OMVL Italy and hence sprung up Gasure.UK. In 2008 Gasure.UK moved into its current premises based in the old ordnance site in Saltney, the previous premises although modern and clean became very expensive to run due to rent and tax rises, it was during this time that John Bickley was taken on as a modern apprentice, although a mature student it was felt that John's commitment would outweigh any age related disadvantages, John was put through college and was awarded his certificate in Motor Engineering and again due to his commitment went on a further year to take his Diploma in Motor Engineering, becoming a great asset to Gasure.UK