![]() ![]() He remembers going to a boat show in Boston with his father in the early 1950s, when he was 10 or 11 years old, and becoming enthralled with a futuristic- looking motorboat built by the Outboard Marine Corporation. “Copy machines were just becoming popular and I was in the right place, certainly at the right time, and I built the company to be the largest photocopier distributor in America.”Īfter a few years he was finally in a position to indulge his long fascination with cars and boats, which he had loved from an early age. The photocopier business was changing, and he saw the opportunity. “The only thing I enjoyed about school was mathematics,” he says.Ĭhambers served as an aviation electrician in the US Navy before launching A-Copy. “I always had a job from the time I was 13 years old.” One of his first was at a Stop & Shop supermarket where he was hired after lying about his age. My father was a commercial artist and we lived with my grandmother, so we never had a lot of money,” he says. “I grew up in a very blue-collar neighbourhood. He talked himself into the job – a gift he had picked up in his youth. I thought a copy machine was something to copy photos,” he says with a laugh. “No one knew what photocopying was back then. Fixing things sounded like something he might want to do, although he wasn’t quite sure what the job entailed. In the early 1960s, Chambers was fresh out of the US Navy, where he had been an aviation electrician, and looking for a job when he saw an ad in The Boston Globe seeking a photocopier repairman. Chambers launched A-Copy America, a photocopier distribution business.īut his first fortune wasn’t made in cars – it was in photocopiers. ![]()
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