Cecil Kimber (* 12 April 1888 in Dulwich; "† 4 February 1945 in London) was joint founder and managing director of many years of the English sportscar manufacturer mg (mg Car company, before times "Morris Garages")

Life

The personal history of Kimber is closely linked with the automobile company mg along-justified of it. Kimber stepped after engine-haven-inspired youth and first going attempts as operation manager and an automobile designer 1921 into the services of William Morris (later lord Nuffield; this controlled over Austin Morris in the 1950er and 1960er years a majority of English automobile production) in and became a managing director of the sales agency of the Morris works in Oxford ("Morris Garages").

With its enthusiasm for engine haven and its organizational and formative talent he sketched sporty variants, which fast friends found on basis of standard automobiles. The denomination of the vehicles of the "Morris Garages" with at that time the Hillclimb and tri aluminum competitions very much liked gave to the small enterprise fast country-wide popularity, particularly since the technical designer Kimber sat gladly and also with success to tax. The mg work expanded rapidly, and under Kimbers line was referred 1929 the new factory in Abingdon, in which Car company produced the mg until 1981.

Its constant occurring for engine-sporty activities and his strict persisting in technologically high-quality vehicles let Kimber fall because of the associated high costs into the late 1930er year with its superiors in disgrace. Kimber fell it ever more heavily to intersperse its technical requirement. Thus mg finally produced more sedans than sports cars in the last complete production year before the war. With beginning of the Second World War also the mg work was then changed over to war production. Kimbers task was now mainly procuring defense contracts, in order to retain to its enterprise independence wished by it - a goal was it for it to be able to take up after the war sports car production again.

Kimber did not experience this no more; it died in February 1945 with an official travel in London during a bomb attack.

Literature

• Mg by McComb, publishing house Osprey of automotives, 1978

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