Born in North Shields, poorly educated, adopted, growing up in the rough world of the Ridges Estate (now Meadowell) and the Shields Fish Quay, he never
set pen to paper for 40 years.
However, building a concept on an employee's personal car--and one with 140,000 kilometers on the odometer to boot--is unusual, almost as unusual as having the supplier's director of Group Research and Development
set pen to paper and draw the interior and exterior shapes.
Eleven years later, feeling like a caged animal in my MBA job, I
set pen to paper.