Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,241 pages of information and 244,492 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

George Henry Turnbull

From Graces Guide
October 1982.

Sir George Henry Turnbull (1926-1992), MD of British Leyland Motor Corporation

1926 October 17th. Born. His father was the apprentice supervisor at the Standard Motor Co

1947 Joins the Standard Motor Co as an apprentice

1950 Married Marion Wing and had one son and two daughters

1959-62 General manager of Standard

1973 Resigns as MD of British Leyland Motor Corporation [1] to take up a new postion in South Korea to set up a Hyundai car factory.[2]

1992 December 22nd. Died

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Friday, Sep 07, 1973
  2. The Engineer 1974/03/14