Billy Diesel Furniture

Billy Diesel Furniture where he produced an exceptional range of fireplaces based on 18th and 19th century neo-classical chimneypieces.

William Valentine, known to most as Billy Diesel, began an engineering apprenticeship in Manchester with the British industrial giant Metropolitan Vickers in the early 1950’s and emigrated to Australia on his own aged 16. For the next 40 years he worked in the remote outback constructing some of the world’s largest uranium processing plants before returning to the UK in 1993 and founding The Susse  ...