[TR] Spen King has died

[Alex Cherington]

It is a strange thing when a complete stranger passes but I feel a great
sadness. I know of Spen KIng through magazine articles and history of 'our'
cars and I had great respect for him and his work.
Only Monday I read an article in Classic Cars about the Range Rover at 40.
He definitely had a hand in many of the cars we now cherish and love.
A sad loss.


--- On Wed, 30/6/10, John Macartney <macartney.john at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> From: John Macartney <macartney.john at yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [TR] Spen King has died
> To: "Randall" <tr3driver at ca.rr.com>, "Triumph List"
<triumphs at autox.team.net>, stag at digest.net
> Date: Wednesday, 30 June, 2010, 12:05
> 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
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Randall
> <tr3driver at ca.rr.com>
> To: Triumph List <triumphs at autox.team.net>;
> stag at digest.net;
> Assn <9issa at justbrits.com>
> 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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