Sublime

We championed our British cars, too, and as far as I was concerned we went on to own two of the best. These were the Morris Minor and the Mini. They were both designed by one of my engineering heroes, Alec Issigonis, not that I knew his name at the time,

Early Cadillac engineering had an important influence on the industry and upon my operations in Hyatt. This was largely due to Henry Leland, who, I believe, was one of those mainly responsible for bringing the technique of interchangeable parts into automobile manufacturing.

my last day of term at the Royal College of Art, I drove down newly opened stretches of the M4 from London to Bath. It was time to start work. I was now general manager for Rotork Marine with a salary of £2,500 ($3,500), an Issigonis Morris 1100 as my company car, and a job to make and sell the Sea Truck.

I’d tell him how much I liked a certain motor because it broke a lot. Jay didn’t understand that at first; why would a motor that broke all the time be so great? But I told him, “You’re never going to sell it if it doesn’t break. What are you going to do with a bunch of motors that never break?” It was a big learning curve.

The significant influence of the copper-cooled engine was in what it taught us about the value of organized cooperation and coordination in engineering and other matters. It showed the need to make an effective distinction between divisional and corporate functions in engineering, and also between advanced product engineering and long-range researc

From the strategic standpoint at that time, however, the most dangerous gap in the list was that between the Chevrolet and the Olds. It was big enough to constitute a volume demand and thereby to accommodate, on top of Chevrolet, a competitor against whom we then had no counter. It was therefore an important gap to fill both offensively and defensi