[TR] Spen King has died

[John Macartney]

Slowly, they're all going - as all of us will. I remember many things about
Spen King. A brilliant engineer, a most approachable person and something you
didn't often find in senior BL management in its early days. Spen King was a
true English gentleman. But then, it has to be remembered that Spen was the
product of The Rover Company of Solihull. Rover made well-engineered cars that
matched Jaguar on quality but not on performance and there were plenty of
people who wanted those qualities in that balance. To that extent, I remember
many people from Rover who entirely matched Spen in character and skill -
among whom were Spencer and Maurice Wilks, Bernard Jackman, Olaf Poppe - and
others. Wonderful men, brilliant engineers, businessmen - and gentlemen all,
to a T.

Jonmac




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From: Randall
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Sent: Wed, 30 June, 2010 0:30:07
Subject: [TR] Spen King has died

Not a name you hear often in Triumph
circles, but an important figure
anyway.
http://www.autoblog.com/2010/06/28/report-spen-king-father-of-the-range-rove
r-dead-at-age-85/

Here's an interesting interview from a few years ago:
http://www.aronline.co.uk/index.htm?kinginterf.htm

-- Randall
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