 Wickins later agreed to sponsor Mark Thatcher's motor racing activities in the 1980s through BCA.Denis Thatcher later served on one of Wickins' company boards, while Mark Thatcher served as chairman of Lotus Cars and later BCA in North America, which Wickins had led from near-bankruptcy to survival.In the late 1980s, Belize-based Hawley Goodall had undertaken a reverse takeover of ADT Security Services, and renamed itself ADT.