Many aeromodellers knew of Howard Boys as a pioneer and innovator from the early nineteen-thirties until he died in 1984 but, as will be shown, this was not the only field in which he excelled.
Born in 1906, Howard was the eldest of eight children.
His grandfather was a tailor in the Northamptonshire village of Weedon Bec where he specialised in making riding and hunting clothes for officers from the local army ordnance depot or Barracks where since 1922 the army equitation school had been based.
Howard's father was apprenticed into his father's business but trade had declined after World War I and he left to become a clerk in the Ordnance Depot until retirement in 1948.
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