Leading Link Forks? Sounds more like a nudge, nudge, wink, wink for the multi pronged. Personally I prefer Leading Link Sausages and it shows. Ooo err, missus!
My mate was a Director at BMC, Cowley. He worked in the car park. He was fired for often having a rest and was history! OK your chum is better than mine!
From the mundane contracts do the interesting machines grow. You cannot have Cobra without the IC etc. to fund it. Greeves was perhaps the same. There are many other cases. Thank goodness for that, though, as we would be short of interesting toys. Then I think, is this sort of thing still going on. Not so much? If so another advantage to being older.