Born in Maidenhead in 1926, I went to various schools following my father, a Police Inspector, to various postings in Berkshire, ending at Abingdon (then part of that county) at Roysses, now Abingdon School.
 
I was apprenticed in engineering in 1942.  As an aircraft design engineer in Oxford I worked on the Avro Lancaster bomber, Supermarine Spitfire and other aircraft and on  sideline parts of midget submarines and special mines.  (This was under wartime conditions.)

Transferring to car design in 1946 we drew panels and frames for Hillman/Rootes, Austin, Rover, Jaguar and Rolls-Royce.  In 1954 I moved to Aston Martin in London, working on the DB2/4 and the prototype design of the new DB4.  In 1956 I was employed at MG in Abingdon by Syd Enever and stayed there until the factory closed in 1980.  During that time I was progressively Chief Body Draughtsman, Chief Project Engineer and finally Chief Engineer –Design and Development in1973.

Projects I worked on were the MGA Twin Cam and Coupe, the Riley 2.6 litre, the Le Mans MGA Coupe, several proposed MGA redesigns and the entirely new MGB Tourer started in1959.   All new designs began as quarter scale drawings from which wooden models were made; these still exist in the Gaydon Heritage Museum.  The final MGB  shape that I drew as a full-sized body layout was approved by John Thornley and the Directors after viewing a wooden full-sized pattern.  From this a prototype was made and production tooling started.  Production started in 1962 and the GT (Farina styled) in1965.  I did some work on the MGC in 1967 and then the big safety related changes in 1974, including rubber bumpers and airbags.

 I was responsible for the launch of the Roy Brocklehurst designed MGB GT V8 project into production in 1973 and the major crash development programme running until the development finished in October 1980.  I still live in Harwell just down the road from Abingdon and run the MGB Tourer I bought at the end, now fitted with the original V8 development engine.  I‘m currently finishing the restoration of a 1933 J2 and trying to write a book!  I am a Vice President of the MGCC and a member of the MGB register and still go on runs and attend meetings in England and abroad and thoroughly enjoy all things MG!