Sim Oakley Biography – Sim Oakley Wiki

Simeon ‘Sim’ Oakley is an engineer, designer, fabricator and TV personality. He is known for his appearance on the TV series Scrapheap Challenge: The Scrappy Races, James May’s Toy Stories, James May and the Dull Men, and The Big Idea Works. He was a production engineer on the Escape.

Sim was born in Woomera, Australia before moving to Saudi Arabia, where he grew up on an RAF base. In the past, he has designed boats and hovercrafts, worked on designs for the circus, and built interactive exhibitions for science museums. He prides himself on being able to build pretty much anything and rarely says no to a build idea!

In 2013, he helped his friend James May to construct a working motorcycle out of Meccano, which May used to complete a lap of the 2013 TT Race.

The Big Idea Works

Sim Oakley is an expert on the BBC show The Big Idea Works, hosted by Sara Davies. The show features inventors, regular people who have extraordinary and innovative ideas but aren’t sure how to turn a concept into a real-life product. The Big Idea Works team of experts help these aspiring inventors develop their initial ideas into a fully-functioning product.