Peter Geliot (pictured left), former Managing Director of Geliot Hurner Ewen (GHE) has died at the age of 92.
Trained as an engineer, his early career included spells with Armstrong Siddeley (later Bristol Siddeley) where he was involved with the Viper jet engine used in the Hunting-Percival Jet Provost aircraft, and the Sapphire engine of the Hawker Hunter and Gloster Javelin fighters.
He took over the reins of the family business from his father in the late 1950s and continued to build on a portfolio of technology for the print finishing, bookbinding and folding carton sectors, including Planeta, Grassi and WUPA. He left GHE in the 1990s to form GK Machines and represent the sales and service interests of Billhöfer in the UK.
