CHARLES GRIFFIN
Aug 26, 2020
3 minutes
WORDS GILES CHAPMAN
IT’S HARD NOT to chuckle at the weary assertion by late BMC engineer Jack Daniels that he was the ‘90% perspiration behind Alec Issigonis’s 10% inspiration’. Issigonis was a brilliant ideas man whom colleagues referred to behind his back as ‘the Greek God’, but he was surrounded by dedicated individuals who toiled to ensure his ideas worked. Daniels was one, and so was Charles Arthur Griffin.
If you ever owned a Morris 1100, Austin 1300 or one of
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