Alfred Owen

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Sir Alfred George Beech Owen KBE (born April 8, 1908 , † October 29, 1975 ) was a British industrialist and from 1929 head of one of the largest privately owned corporations in Great Britain.

Life

Owen received his education at Lickey Hills School, in Oundle and at Emmanuel College (Cambridge) . He took over Rubery Owen & Company , founded by his father Alfred Ernest Owen (1868–1929) together with John Tunner Rubery, in 1929 and chaired the Owen Organization - founded in 1893, it comprised 53 companies, mainly automotive suppliers . The British Racing Motors team and the Motor Panels company , which built the record-breaking Blue Bird CN 7, were integrated into the company network . Privately, Alfred Owen was involved in spreading the Christian gospel and was closely associated with the Billy Graham Crusades .

Honors

In 1954 he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire and in 1961 a Knight Bachelor .

He had not been able to complete his engineering degree at Cambridge because of the obligations he had taken on after his father's death. The University College of North Staffordshire awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1965 .

literature

  • David J. Jeremy / Geoffrey Tweedale: Dictionary of Twentieth Century British Business Leaders , Bowker-Saur, London et al., ISBN 0-86291-594-5 , p. 144
  • Hans Christoph Graf von Seherr-Thoss : Dictionary of Famous Personalities in the Automobile World , Ivy House Publishing Group, Raleigh 2002, ISBN 1-57197-333-8 , p. 119
  • Leonard McDonald / Richard Storey (Eds.): Rubery Owen Holdings Ltd. Archive , University of Warwick Library, Coventry 1997, ISBN 0-903220-38-5 , p. 14 ( Online , PDF)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From the raffle , Der Spiegel 29/1962, p. 54
  2. ↑ Geoff Dawes: Bluebird Blasts the Bush , Australian Classic Car Monthly, June 1997, on "archive.is" ( Memento from September 7, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Owen, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Owen, Alfred George Beech (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1908
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1975