A true visionary

Some years ago, I was issued a request. I was travelling back to Norfolk from Lincolnshire that weekend and would I be able to pop over to nearby Louth, home of HRC, and collect a Honda CBR600 engine, that Honda UK’s top motorsport man Neil Tuxworth was lending to Peter Williams. My brother Simon had worked with Peter at Lotus cars years before, and either Simon or one of his pals was going to 3D scan it for Peter, so that Peter could have accurate dimensions for the Moto2 project he was working on. I only found out later the engine was the one Steve Plater had recently used at the TT, to come fourth with. But such was the esteem Peter was held in, for both