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[TR] Harry Webster, Ex-Triumph engineering giant passes away at 89

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Subject: [TR] Harry Webster, Ex-Triumph engineering giant passes away at 89
From: "Bill Miller \(LBCs\)" <lbcs@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:24:49 -0500
>From The MG's list...

Sadly, another motoring great is gone.... 
 
HARRY Webster, 89 years old was a British  automotive engineer who left an 
indelible mark on the motor car industry of Great Britain. Sadly Webster
passed away on February 6, 2007   He was a much-admired and  respected
automotive engineer whose team inspired the birth of successful  Triumph
sports cars such as the TR2 family, the Spitfire and the Stag, and was  also
responsible for the Herald, Vitesse, 2000 and 1300 family car ranges; in
the same period, he supported the building of special cars which raced
successfully in the Le Mans 24-Hour race.  Having become  director of
engineering in 1957, Webster assembled an enthusiastic team which  produced
a series of charismatic new models to near-impossible development schedules,
even though investment finance was always very limited.  It was  Webster who
discovered the mercurial little Italian stylist Giovanni Michelotti  in
1957, signed him up as a consultant to Standard-Triumph and ensured that a
new generation of Triumphs would have much more flair than their ancestors.
Webster (a fast and enthusiastic driver) would often drive from  Coventry to

Turin and back in a weekend to confer with Michelotti about future products.

TR-4-TR-5/250 and the TR-6   More on his story  at
 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007
/02/09/db0904.xml)


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