14-year-old Edgar Neuberg and his younger sister fled Nazi persecution in Germany in 1939. They arrived on the Kindertransport, but the rest of their family did not survive. Edgar and his sister were taken in by a Methodist minister and his wife in Stockport. Edgar trained at the local engineering college. In Birmingham in the late 1950s, Edgar established Neuberg Metals, a metal spinning business. They made pots, pans, and later lighting fittings. It was a successful venture, and employed 70-80 people at its height in the 1980s. Neuberg Metals, still run by Edgar’s son Clive, made the 15,000 silver discs cladding the Birmingham Selfridges Building.
