Monarch Engineering Company

Monarch Engineering Company is based at No. 30 Futa Road in Hondon Vihar. The Futa Road area is pretty industrial, so there’s always trucks and heavy machinery moving around. Our place is full of the smell of oil and cut metal. We've got lathes and drills that have been running for years. It's a bit of a dusty environment, but that's just the nature of engineering work. We started out small and haven't changed the way we work much since then. The shop floor is where everything happens, and the small office in the front is mostly for keeping the books. We don't go in for big meetings or fancy business talk. If a customer comes in, we just talk about what they need and how long it’ll take. The workers here are local guys who know their way around a machine. Sometimes Futa Road gets muddy after the rain, making it a bit of a mess to get to the entrance. We just deal with it. We aren't trying to be the biggest company out there. We just want to do the jobs that come in properly. It’s a lot of manual labor and standing on your feet all day. We close up at the end of the day feeling tired but satisfied with what we’ve built. It’s a straightforward way to make a living and we've been at this spot for several years now.