Mr. Hunt was apprenticed into the printing trade at Reading. He came to Rushden about 1904, working at first for C. G. Jowitt at the “Argus” office and for the late Mr. A. T. P Phillipson, whose business he acquired in 1916, afterwards moving from Coffee Tavern Lane to premises in George Street.

He was married in 1935 and in due course his two sons joined him in the business. In 1974 the building was demolished and the company moved to the old British United Shoe Machinery Company's building, in Midland Road.

The old BUSM building built in 1926 - in 2008