Henry George Webster

Henry George Webster

Henry George (Harry) Webster, CBE (1917-05-27–2007-02-06) was a British automotive engineer who inspired the creation of iconic Triumph cars throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

Biography

Harry Webster was born in Coventry in 1917, and joined the Standard Motor Company there in 1932 as an apprentice. He spent six years in Standard's aircraft engineering operation during the Second World War, after which he returned to the car chassis design department in Coventry. Following Standard's acquisition of the Triumph Motor Company in 1946, Webster's design and chassis engineering abilities helped to revive the Triumph marque through the 1950s. In 1957 Webster became Triumph's director of engineering, and in 1967 he was appointed chief executive engineer at Leyland Motors, which had by then acquired Standard-Triumph. In 1968, following the merger of British Motor Holdings and Leyland Motors to form British Leyland Motor Corporation (BLMC) he succeeded Alec Issigonis as BLMC's technical director.

Webster worked on Triumph's TR series of sports cars, which included the TR2, TR3, TR4, and TR5 (the first British sports car to have fuel injection fitted as standard) and brought in Italian stylist Giovanni Michelotti to work with him on the TR6, Herald, Vitesse, Spitfire, 2000, and Stag.

In 1974 he was appointed CBE for his contribution to the motor industry, and the same year, after resigning from BLMC he joined Leamington Spa-based brake and clutch manufacturer Automotive Products as group technical director. He retired in 1982 and lived in Kenilworth, where he had moved to in the late 1950s, until his death in 2007.

References

*cite news
title=Harry Webster
date=2007-02-09
publisher=The Daily Telegraph
url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/09/db0904.xml
*cite news
title=Harry Webster: Designer of the Triumph Herald
author=Giles Chapman
date=2007-02-17
publisher=The Independent
url=http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2278080.ece
*cite news
title=Car designer Harry Webster dies
date=2007-02-15
publisher=The Leamington Spa Courier
url=http://www.leamingtonspatoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=691&ArticleID=2052726
*cite news
title=Harry Webster
date=2007-02-12
publisher=The Times
url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1368872.ece

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