TORC engineers designed an operator control unit, a two-screen interface with a joystick.
Torc said that the acquisition is consistent with its strategy to capitalize on opportunities to enhance the quality of its asset base throughout the commodity price cycle.
A Staffordshire County Council spokesman would not say whether Mr Austin was sacked from
Torc but added: "We can confirm he was employed by the school and left in 1997."
"I sent an email with photographs of the
torcs to the National Museum of Scotland that day.
Now local historians have found an Iron Age terminal in a nearby field, which they think fits the
torc. Experts from the British Museum, where the
torc is kept, will examine the newly unearthed piece in the near future.
One of the necklaces is a "ribbon
torc" made from twisted Irish or Scottish sheet gold.
The buried treasure automatically became the property of the Crown Last night a spokesman for the National Museums of Scotland said: "These four gold
torcs are a very significant find.
And,during their third and last weekend,around February 25, they made their greatest haul -which included a twisted gold wire bracelet, a necklace called a
torc,a bracelet,a pendant and a collection of yet more beads and rings -all made of gold.
Mr Ryan, of
Torc Avenue, Tamworth, was driving a red Rover 416 on the A4091 Tamworth road, near Bodymoor Heath Lane, when it crashed.
The tragedy happened at
Torc County High School in Silver Link Road, Glascote, Tamworth.
The "
torc" necklaces are like those worn by queen Boudicca 2000 years ago.