Tadek Marek

Tadek Marek designed 6-cylinder engine, the 3.7-liter, here in a DB4 installed

Tadeusz "Tadek" Marek (* 1908 in Cracow ; † 1982 ) was a Polish automotive engineer who was best known for his Aston Martin engines .

Career

Marek was born in Krakow and studied engineering at the Technical University of Berlin before starting to work for Fiat and General Motors in Poland. Despite a serious racing accident in 1928, he took part in the Monte Carlo Rally in 1937 in a Fiat 1100 , in 1938 in a Lancia Aprilia and in 1939 in an Opel Olympia . In a Chevrolet Master Sedan (4 door) he also won the XII in 1939. Rally Poland before moving to the UK in 1940 to join the Polish Army. In 1944 he joined the development team atCenturion - Meteor engines added. He then returned to Germany to work for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration . When this mission ended, he decided to move back to England.

In 1949 he started working for the Austin Motor Company and then from 1954 for Aston Martin . He is best known for working on three types of engines at Aston Martin. In 1956, for example, he developed the six-cylinder in - line engine for the Aston Martin DBR2 racing car , revised the previous in-line six-cylinder from Lagonda in 1957 and finally developed the Aston Martin V8 engine in 1968. The latter was first used in 1969 in the Aston Martin DBS and remained in the Aston Martin engine range for almost five decades.

Marek moved to Italy with his wife in 1968 , where he died in 1982.

Individual evidence

↑ David Dowsey: Aston Martin. Power, beauty and soul . Ed .: Peleus Press. 2010, p. 26 ( google.com ).
↑ ^a ^b A biography with pictures by Tadek Marek , which is based on an article by Brian Joscelyne and Adrian Feather, Marek the man, published in 1967 in the quarterly magazine of the Aston Martin Owners Club .
↑ according to architecture critic Jonathan Glancey in his article Put the dash back into Aston Martin from The Guardian , published on March 13, 2007.

personal data
SURNAME	Marek, Tadek
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Marek, Tadeusz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Polish automotive engineer
DATE OF BIRTH	1908
PLACE OF BIRTH	Krakow
DATE OF DEATH	1982

[1] David Dowsey: Aston Martin. Power, beauty and soul . Ed .: Peleus Press. 2010, p. 26 ( google.com ).

[dbsvantage-2] A biography with pictures by Tadek Marek , which is based on an article by Brian Joscelyne and Adrian Feather, Marek the man, published in 1967 in the quarterly magazine of the Aston Martin Owners Club .

[3] rding to architecture critic Jonathan Glancey in his article Put the dash back into Aston Martin from The Guardian , published on March 13, 2007.