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Decided on career in that field after seeing an advert for trainee engineers from LEO. After&nbsp; training worked first as commissioning engineer on LEO II\/7 than became site maintenance enginner on LEO II and LEO III sites including acting as chief engineer on Ilford\u2019s LEO III.. 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