John Black (Motor industry)

John Black (Motor industry)

Sir John Paul Black (February 10, 1895December 24, 1965) held several senior positions in the British Motor Industry including chairman of Standard-Triumph.

He was born in Kingston upon Thames on 10 February 1895 the son of a clerk, John George Black and his wife Ellen (Smith) and studied law at the University of London. During World War I he served first in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve before transferring to the Royal Tank Regiment where he gained the rank of Captain.

After the war he joined Hillman as a sales manager and in 1921 married one of the owner's daughters, (Margaret Verena b. 1887). Shortly afterwards he became joint managing director alongside his brother-in-law Spencer Wilks who had also married one of the Hillman girls (Kathleen Edith b. 1891). In 1928 he joined the boards of Humber and Commer.

In 1929, after Hillman, Humber and Commer had become part of the Rootes Group he resigned his posts and took up a new position at the Standard Motor Company and in 1933 he became managing director. With the possibility of war again looming he enthusiastically backed the government scheme for Shadow Factories and gained contracts to build and operate two.

During World War II he became chairman of the Aero Engine Committee, a role for which he gained a knighthood in 1943. In the later years of the war he organised the take over of Triumph and in 1953 he became chairman of Standard-Triumph with Alick Dick taking over control of day to day operations. He was injured in late 1953 in an accident when being given a demonstration of the Swallow Doretti and this affected his judgement and he was forced to resign in January 1954 officially because of his health.

In his retirement he took up farming. He died suddenly on the 24 December, 1965 at the age of 70.

He married twice, first to Margaret Hillman but divorced in 1939. He married again in 1943 to Alison Joan Pears Linton with whom he had three sons, Hugo, Stuart and Nicholas.

References

* Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Black, Sir John Paul by Steven Morewood
* http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~nicouls/SirJohnBlack.htm


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