- Geoffrey Healey
Geoffrey Carroll Healey (1922-1994), British car designer, was born in
Perranporth ,Cornwall , the son ofDonald Healey and his wife Ivy Maud, on December 14th 1922. He died on April 29th 1994.Initially a pupil at
Truro School , he transferred toEmscote Lawn School, Warwick in 1934, when his father started to be employed by theTriumph Motor Company inCoventry as their Experimental Manager. Geoffrey moved toWarwick School in April 1937, and took hisSchool Certificate there in 1939.At the start of the
Second World War , Geoffrey his mother and brothers moved back to Cornwall, whereupon Geoffrey studied metallurgy at theCamborne School of Mines . Soon afterwards he became an apprentice at Cornercroft inCoventry and studied engineering atCoventry Technical College . He joined the newREME corps of theArmy in late 1943, serving inSyria , theLebanon andEgypt , reaching the rank ofCaptain .Demobilised in 1947, he joined Armstrong Siddeley Motors as a development engineer. He stayed there for two years, before joining his father Donald in
Warwick , also as Development Engineer.Two years after his death, his life story was published as "The Healey Story". This has been reviewed as "a Cornish father and son partnership and their 30-year involvement in the motor industry. The cars they made are still highly sought-after in Europe, the US and Australia, where many of the specials Geoffrey Healey prepared can now be found."
References
'The Healey Story: A Dynamic Father and Son Partnership and Their World-beating Cars'. Geoffrey Healey ISBN 0-85429-949-1. G.T.Foulis & Co (1996) (Haynes Group)
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