It’s congratulations to the team at Cygnus Instruments on the occasion of the company’s 40th anniversary, celebrated by a tea party (or maybe that’s champagne…).
Here’s how Dorchester UK-based Cygnus came about;
“Back in 1956, the future founder of Cygnus, George Edes, left his home country as a 12-year-old asylum-seeking refugee.His parents told no one and sacrificed everything to give him, his siblings and his future children a better chance in life than that offered by post-WW2 (military occupied) Hungary.George Edes didn’t know he was heading to England, but once in the UK he took every opportunity open to him!
“He went on to do a mathematics degree played a lot of poker, became a commercial diver and a ship surveyor which took him to Japan. Around the age of 30, he closed a ship survey business there and headed back to the UK, with his wife, to start all over again.Edes created a new ship survey business, Surtest Marine, and used it as a platform to develop pioneering ultrasonic thickness gauges. As soon as the products were proven, a new company Cygnus Instruments was formed in 1983.
“Sadly, George and his wife died in 1988. What followed was a series of turbulent chapters for the business.Those tough times are now in the company’s past, but appreciated because the team is strong-willed and passionate as a result. Their daughter (Lulu) joined Cygnus in 2005 determined to protect her father’s legacy. …now the founder’s legacy is a platform on which to build our own…Together we form a strong community and live by values that underpin the company culture and make Cygnus great today!”
