Metrology specialist Renishaw is sad to announce the death of its co-founder and non-
executive director, Sir David McMurtry. Sir David founded Renishaw in 1973 with John Deer,
a fellow Rolls-Royce engineer, to commercialise the 3D touch-trigger probe for CMMs. He
had invented the probe the previous year to solve measurement problems faced in the
manufacture of Olympus engines that powered the Concorde supersonic aircraft.
A brilliant engineer, he was employed at Rolls-Royce in Bristol for 17 years. Sir David went
on to be named on over 200 patents for Renishaw innovations. The company he co-founded
over 50 years ago today employs over 5000 people in 36 countries. His Knighthood was
awarded ‘for services to Design and Innovation’ and he was appointed a Royal Designer for
Industry (RDI) in 1989.
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