{"id":1750,"date":"2025-07-15T08:49:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T08:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/1750\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T08:49:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T08:49:04","slug":"vaughan-engineering-group-third-generation-proud-to-take-the-reins-at-family-run-ni-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/1750\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaughan Engineering Group: Third generation \u2018proud\u2019\u00a0to take the reins at family-run NI firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Stuart Vaughan talks to Margaret Canning about how he and his cousin have become the third generation to run family company Vaughan Engineering Group and the harsh lessons it learnt from the collapse of Carillion<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Andrew and Stuart Vaughan\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/dd39ea9d-837c-467c-af51-396cc80184b8.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Andrew and Stuart Vaughan<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It dates back to 1955, when Albert (\u2018AJ\u2019) Vaughan set up a heating company in Tomb Street in Belfast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Albert was later joined in the business by sons Bryan, Gavin and Mike, and the business grew into mechanical and electrical (M&amp;E) contractor Vaughan Engineering Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stuart Vaughan talks to Margaret Canning about how he and his cousin have become the third generation to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1334,84,59,1335,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-1750","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-belfast","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-gb","11":"tag-margaret-canning","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}