- Harry Mundy
Harry Mundy (born 1915) was a British car engine designer and
motoring magazine editor. He died in 1988 at the age of 75.He was educated at
King Henry VIII School in Coventry and went on to serve his apprenticeship with Alvis. He left them in 1936 to join ERA in Bourne, Lincolnshire as a draughtsman. Also at ERA wasWalter Hassan who became a lifelong friend and the two would work together later at Jaguar on engine development.He left ERA in 1939 and returned to Coventry to work at the Morris Engines factory.
After World War II he moved to
BRM in 1946 as head of the design office before moving on again in 1950 toCoventry Climax engines as chief designer working on the FWA engine.His career then took a change in direction and he moved into journalism becoming Technical Editor of
The Autocar magazine in 1955 but while there he also worked on the design of the Ford based twin-cam engine for Lotus. [cite book
last = Wilkins
firs = Miles
title = Lotus Twin-cam Engine
pages = 13
publisher = MBI Publishing
id = ISBN 0-7603-1692-9]However, following Jaguar's purchase of Coventry Climax in 1963. Walter Hassan persuaded Mundy to return to engineering where he and
Walter Hassan developed theJaguar V12 engine Harry Mundy would stay with Jaguar until his retirement in 1980 after which he still did some consultancy work.
Johnny Vaughan onTop Gear mentioned that Harry was his uncle.References
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