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Following his death his son Charles Renold gave a talk to the employees at the Burnage factory where he said the following:
"My father was a great man and I have often pondered over the secret of his character and achievements. No simple formula can explain any man but looking back on him I think that the keynote of his whole life was a passion for good work. He enjoyed money when it came, but commercial success was of quite secondary interest. What drove him on was the joy of creation – of doing something just as well as he knew how. "Good enough" was a sentiment that was quite unknown to him. It might well have been written of him, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might."His relations with other people were based on this same deep instinct. He valued and respected people according to the quality of their work whatever it was, and the degree of their devotion to it. That also was at the root of his relations with his employees. He had no particular theories of social conditions or relationships. His respect went out to the good workman. He collected good workmen around him, and the mutual respect between good workmen knows no social distinctions. His care for working conditions and good wages arose from the same feeling. "The labourer is worthy of his hire," and the good workman deserves good conditions.
After his passion for good workmanship perhaps his most striking quality was his capacity for remaining young in mind and spirit. In the course of his business life he saw profound changes, but he encountered each with enthusiasm and confidence. No one ever heard him complain that the world was going to the dogs because things were no longer as they used to be. He believed in the fundamental goodness of his fellowmen and I think that he felt that all change was growth and must somehow be good.
Unlike many self-made men, he was content to allow those whom he had trained to take over the reigns from his hands well before the end of his life.
Now that we have said goodbye to him he would have wished to be remembered as a lover of good work and of good workmen, who died at the age of 90, still young in spirit.
