Eric Neale

Eric Neale (b. 1910-09-26 d. 1997] ) was a British car designer.

Biography

Born in Halesowen, Worcestershire and educated at Halesowen Grammar School. He served as an apprentice designer at Mulliners in Birmingham where he assisted with body design for Rolls-Royce, Minerva, Daimler, Panhard-Levassor, Stutz, and Packard.

In 1929 he left Mulliners to join Holbrook Bodies in Coventry who made bodies for Alvis, Triumph and Armstrong Siddeley. After only two years he moved on to join Singer in Birmingham as a body designer, and later to Daimler where he worked on Lanchester and Daimler saloons.

In the late 1930s Neale moved to Austin and then to Wolseley.

During World War II Neale served in the Royal Air Force. After the war Neale went back to Wolseley and then in 1946 moved to Jensen.

Neale left Jensen in 1966 following Jensen's decision to drop his design in favour of the Touring design for the new Jensen Interceptor.

Eric Neale died in 1997

ome of his cars

* Singer Nine
* Austin A40 Sports (1950)
* Jensen Interceptor (1950)
* Jensen 541

References

* cite book
author=Keith Anderson
title=Jensen
id=ISBN 0-85429-682-4
year=1989
publisher=Haynes Publishing Group