Book of the month
Kim: a Biography of M.G. Founder Cecil Kimber
JON PRESSNELL, Dalton Watson, £130.50, ISBN 978 1 956309 11 9
Cecil Kimber, known as ‘Kim’, died at the early age of 56. On 4 February 1945 he was in the last coach of an express train leaving Kings Cross that stalled and ran back downhill into another train waiting at the platform. Kimber was one of two fatalities.
Nearly 80 years later, attempting to produce an in-depth biography of Kimber was never going to be an easy task. Fortunately, author Jon Pressnell has been a motoring journalist long enough that he was able to interview some of Kimber’s associates before they, too, passed away; and Kimber’s youngest daughter Jean also wrote extensively about her father. The result is a hefty, beautifully produced landscape hardback that combines the nuts-and-bolts of Kimber’s motor industry career with plenty of
