Lecture
- Session
- 00:7 - 00:7
- Duration: 1 hr 15 mins
- Publication date: 07 Dec 2006
- Location: IETTV_Room, IETTV_Venue, London, United Kingdom
- Part of series The Viscount Nuffield Lecture Series and Part of event The IET Viscount Nuffield/Mensforth Lecture
About the session
This presentation is a tour of the history of the Morgan Motor Company, the 'first and last' family-owned sports car company in existence, The speaker, who is the grandson of the founder, H.F.S. Morgan, gives a personal insight into the 30-year cycles that have shaped a business and motoring legend. Concentrating on the four significant eras that have fashioned the Morgan business today and beyond, the speaker begins with 1909-1939, the 'entrepreneur era', and tells the story of H.F.S. Morgan, the founding father and the self-made man behind the Morgan motor car, tracking his life from the beginning as the son of a Herefordshire rector to the chairman of a successful sports car company.