[4] After the war, his company became Forte Holdings Ltd and bought the Café Royal in 1954.In the 1950s, he also opened the first catering facility at Heathrow Airport and the first full British motorway service station for cars at Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, on the M1 motorway in 1959.He purchased the Hungaria Restaurant in Lower Regent St. in 1955.