Maurice Wilks, the designer of The Land Rover
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Had an interesting day today, visiting the wonderful Anglesey transport museum, which has a fantastic display of old classic cars, motorcycles, tractors and military vehicles, even a Hawker Hunter jet,
Anyhow, they had a feature on the birth of the Land Rover, and it's chief designer Maurice Wilkes, who later also designed the Rover gas turbine car.
He lived a few miles away on the island,
It said he died aged 59 and was laid to rest in a churchyard about four miles away, so I thought I would go and check it out.
The tiny church is in the middle of nowhere, down an old track, and eventually I came across the rather unkept neglected grave, which I doubt many people know about, it seemed so sad, as he was Chairman of Rover and a giant of the motoring world.
Anyway, here was the inscription on the headstone, if you can make it out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Wilks
Anyhow, they had a feature on the birth of the Land Rover, and it's chief designer Maurice Wilkes, who later also designed the Rover gas turbine car.
He lived a few miles away on the island,
It said he died aged 59 and was laid to rest in a churchyard about four miles away, so I thought I would go and check it out.
The tiny church is in the middle of nowhere, down an old track, and eventually I came across the rather unkept neglected grave, which I doubt many people know about, it seemed so sad, as he was Chairman of Rover and a giant of the motoring world.
Anyway, here was the inscription on the headstone, if you can make it out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Wilks
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