Sir David Brown (May 10, 1904 - September 3, 1993) was a British industrialist, executive director of David Hawk's equipment and machine tools business and recently David Brown Tractors, and one-time owner ship Vosper Thorneycroft and car manufacturers Aston Martin and Lagonda.
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Brown was born in Park Cottage in the Yorkshire town of Huddersfield to Caroline and Frank Brown in 1904. Pack Cottage was pulled down in the Second World War to pave the way for a new factory - on the site of their 17-acre Park Works in Huddersfield, Yorkshire.
Brown attended the King James School of Grammar, Almondbury and Rossall School.
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After leaving school, Brown began work at the age of 17 years in 1921 as if it was just another apprenticeship in his family business, David Brown & amp; Sons (Huddersfield), biking 6 miles to work at 7.30am. The company, founded by his grandfather David, specializes in transmission components. While his father was not interested in cars and did not drive, his mother was a keen driver and as a kid he drove alongside Frederick Tasker Burgess on David Brown & amp; The kids are new Valless cars but he did not learn to drive until he was 11 years old.
Brown's father offered to buy him a motorcycle to help him work on time, so depending on his father's ignorance about motor vehicles, instead of a small benign motorcycle, Brown after considering Harley Davidson acquired a powerful 1,000cc V-twin Reading Standard. He later improved his performance by modifying the engine and running in weekend hill up competitions at Ax Moor Edge in Derbyshire and at Sutton Bank in Yorkshire. After reaching the fastest time at Ax Edge Moor, he was invited to become a reserve driver for the official Douglas motorcycle team to complete it at the upcoming International Isle of Man TT (Tourist Trophy). When he attended the practice session, his father forbade him to compete in the competition.
At this time Brown was in love with Daisy Muriel Firth, three years older than him. In an attempt to break the relationship, his father sent Brown to South Africa in 1922 to assist the company's director in overseeing the company's gear mountings at a gold mine near Johannesburg. When a director's drink affects his ability to do the job, Brown takes over responsibility for the project.
Upon his return from South Africa Brown decided to design and build his own car. Working in his bedroom every night until 2 o'clock, he designed a 1.5-liter twin-cam engine, a straight-eight engine. Then using the foundry company, he made the pattern and threw the cylinder block, while using the machine shop to produce other components. His father stopped work when he arrested his son working on a project at the time of the company. Undaunted, Brown built the chassis, installed it with a 2-liter Sage engine, attached to the Meadows gear box. He called the result "Daybro". David Brown & amp; The children's teeth grinding skills brought him initial contacts with Bertelli from Aston Martin for gears and Amherst Villiers for his superchargers. With the approval Villiers Brown modified Vauxhall who then won his class at Shelsley Walsh for three consecutive years. It is said to be capable of more than 140 mph on the sand.
As the foundation continued in various parts of their work, he advanced to the foreman and then the assistant worked as a manager.
Sent to the United States, Africa, and Europe in 1928 to study the business methods and conditions of the factory, he returned and started a bronze and steel foundry at Penistone, where unemployment was severe. The new foundry uses a new technique of steel casting and quick success. As well as meeting the needs of its own group of foundries makes precision casting for various industries and used in airframes aircraft, aero engines, power plants, oil fields and oil refineries.
In 1929 he was appointed director and for the death of his uncle, Percy in 1931, appointed as a joint managing director in 1932. In 1933 he became managing director. Under Brown's leadership, the company significantly expanded its operations.
Tractor
In 1934 David Brown & amp; The children build a new plant at a site in Meltham, on the south side of Huddersfield. Brown, who also owns a farm, started building the Ferguson-Brown Company tractor with Harry Ferguson there in 1936, but they disagreed over the details of the design, which led David Brown to design his own version of David Brown VAK1 which was introduced to the market in 1939, with more than 7,700 units were eventually sold. Harry Ferguson went to America and made a deal with Henry Ford to enter his system on the Ford N-Series tractor, before arranging for Ferguson Tractors.
The Second World War saw a massive increase in the production of gears and gearboxes by David Brown Ltd. for use in military equipment. Increased revenues from the company's traditional products and tractor making made Brown a wealthy man.
Aston Martin
In late 1946, Brown saw a classified ad on The Times , offering sales of "High Class Motor Business". The requested price is Ã, Â £ 30,000. Upon further inquiring, Brown discovers that the company is Aston Martin. A few days later Brown visited corporate headquarters in Feltham and tested their new prototype design, Atom.
While he feels it has a good road handed him assumes that his 2.0 liter four-cylinder pushrod engine lacks power. But seeing that potential he got into negotiations that ended in February 1947 with him acquiring the company for £ 20,500. After the purchasing work begins on turning the Atom into a production car. While the prototype is a saloon, Brown is preferably convertible so the chassis is redesigned to accommodate the open top. eventually entered production as Aston Martin 2-Liter Sports, now commonly called DB1.
Lagonda
In 1947, Brown heard through Tony Scratchard, a distributor of Lagonda cars in Bradford that Lagonda was in financial trouble and sold. Although initially he was not interested in the company, when a liquidator was then appointed to sell the company's assets, Brown felt an opportunity to visit the company. There he met the famous engine designer W. O. Bentley, who showed him a machine called LB6 he had worked on for the company. It is a modern twin-cam 680 cylinder 2,580 cc engine. Brown saw the engine as identical to a new generation of Aston Martin models. Aware that Armstrong Siddeley, Jaguar and Rootes are also interested in the company and the liquidator looking for Ã, Â £ 250,000 bid Brown still decides to bid, though he knows it will be the lowest. Due to tight economic conditions and steel rationing, other bidders broke up. While the liquidator was able to sell the factory building to another company, to Brown's surprise he was able to earn for Ã, Â £ 52,500 the rest of the company as well as the rights to the new engine.
Since Lagonda had to vacate his residence, Brown kept his new asset on some hangers at London Air Park in Hanworth, which is close to the Aston Martin factory. The newly acquired machine immediately sees service at Aston Martin DB2.
In late 1955 Brown acquired Tickford coachbuilder. He then concentrated all the Aston Martin and Lagonda manufactures in place of Tickford at Newport Pagnell.
Aston Martin's legendary 'DB' series of cars, including DB1 (2 Liter Sports), DB2, DB3, DB4, DB5, DB6, DBS are named after Brown using their initials. While at the helm of Aston Martin company, he uses rival products, Jaguar XJ Series I, as a private transportation because the price is cheaper to run.
In February 1972 with David Brown Corporation in financial difficulty another member of the council forced Brown to sell the tractor division to Tenneco International. and Aston Martin Lagonda to separate buyers.
The new owner Aston Martin Lagonda dropped the appointment of the DB model, which in 1993 was restored during Ford ownership with the introduction of DB7. Walter Hayes chairman Aston Martin Lagonda was invited and Brown accepted the position of Honorary President of Life Aston Martin Lagonda.
Vospers Thornycroft
In 1963, David Brown Corporation purchased a controlling stake in Vosper & amp; The company, where Sir David Brown became Chairman. The company joins John I. Thornycroft & amp; The company to create Vosper Thornycroft in 1966. The company's warship building division was nationalized by the Labor Government in 1977, becoming a division of British Shipbuilders. The remainder of the company remains publicly quoted as a subsidiary of David Brown Corporation. Bitter about the nationalization of Brown left the UK to live in retirement in Monte Carlo.
Selling company
In January 1990, Brown sold his stake in David Brown Corporation for Ã, £ 46 million, but retained a relationship with the company in his role as honorary president.
Personal life
In his personal life, Brown played polo at the Ham Polo Club in the summer and during the winter he spent most of the weekend hunting; he was with the Master of the South Oxford dog. He also raises hunters and racehorses in his 700-acre field in Buckinghamshire. His greatest success was his horse, Linwell, winning the 1957 Cheltenham Gold Cup. Brown was a qualified pilot, possessed of his personal De Havilland Dove, usually flown by his private pilot and also setting up his own airfield at Crosland Moor, southwest of Huddersfield.
During his lifetime he was a member of the Board of Governors at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, Huddersfield Chamber of Commerce and Lloyd's.
He became knighted in 1968 for service into the industry.
In 1926 against the wishes of Brown's parents, who refused to attend the wedding, Brown married Daisy Muriel Firth, whom he had known since he was 14. They had two children, David and Angela, both of whom entered the family business. Angela married George Abecassis the racer. After his divorce with Daisy, Brown married his secretary Marjorie Deans in 1955. The marriage also ended in divorce and he later married his personal assistant, Paula Benton Stone in 1980.
Sir David Brown died in September 1993 in Monte Carlo. Eight years later, David Brown Limited was acquired by Textron.
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References
- Dowsey, David (2010). Aston Martin: Strength, Beauty and Soul (Hardback) . Mulgrave, Victoria, Australia: The Images Publishing. ISBN: 978-1-86470-424-2. Ã, No cites, Andrew (2017). Aston Martin DB: 70 Years (Hardback) . London: Aurum Press. ISBN: 978-1-78131-713-6.
Further reading
- Earnshaw, Alan (2012). David Brown Tractors 1936-64 (Hardback) . Appleby-in-Westmorland: Trans-Pennine Publishing Ltd. ISBN: 978-1-90301-602-2.
- Encouraged to Succeed.
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