director, was a Maurice Wilks relative by marriage. Peter Wilks (1920-1972), son of Geoffrey Wilks, took over his uncle Maurice Wilks' technical directorship...

Maurice Wilk was a well-known American violinist who performed as a member of the Alma Trio from 1953 until his sudden death in 1963. He was the original...

Austins. In 1930 Spencer Wilks was joined by his brother, Maurice, who had also been at Hillman as chief engineer. Spencer Wilks was to stay with the company...

aeronautical engineer Maurice Canning Wilks (1910–1984), Irish landscape painter Maurice Wilk (died 1963), American violinist Maurice Wilkins (1916–2004)...

model. The design for the original vehicle was started in 1947 by Maurice Wilks. Wilks, chief designer at the Rover Company, on his farm in Newborough,...

along with his younger brother Maurice. Wilks was born in Rickmansworth, a town of south-west Hertfordshire to Thomas Wilks (born Balham), a Director of...

Wilkes, Wilke, Wilks, Wilkin, and Wilkins. The following people bear the surname: Adam Wilk (born 1987), American baseball pitcher Brad Wilk (born 1968)...

and a few prototypes made, but would be too expensive to produce. Maurice Wilks, Rover's chief designer came up with a plan to produce a light agricultural...

was built and tested around Dwyran and Newborough, Anglesey in 1947. Maurice Wilks designer of the Land Rover is buried just outside Dwyran village. John...

John Wilks (1776–1854), English Member of Parliament Jonathan Wilks (born 1967), British ambassador Mark Wilks (1759–1831), Manx soldier Maurice Wilks (1904–1963)...

the first car to be developed by Rover after the Wilks brothers Spencer and younger brother Maurice joined the company. The car was relatively expensive...

Maurice Canning Wilks (1910–1984) was an Irish landscape painter. Born in Belfast in 1910 to a linen designer, he was educated in Belfast at the Malone...

concepts (1950s/60s) In 1950, designer F.R. Bell and Chief Engineer Maurice Wilks from British car manufacturers Rover unveiled the first car powered...

Rootes takeover and went to Standard Motor Co. Another daughter married Maurice Wilks who left Hillman in the same period and eventually went to Rover Company...

Island for many years and was buried at St Peter's church in 1959. Maurice Wilks, automotive and aeronautical engineer, was born at Eastoke, Hayling...

Cozzens, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1978) 1904 – Maurice Wilks, English engineer and businessman (d. 1963) 1906 – Philo Farnsworth...

actress (born Kent, 1968) Rex Whistler – artist (born Eltham, Kent 1905) Maurice Wilks – father of the Land Rover, which was test driven on Newborough and...

Welsh farm of then Rover chief engineer Maurice Wilks and by his older brother, managing director Spencer Wilks. Production of their "Land Rover" started...

Peter Wilks rejoined Rover. The design was largely the work of Peter Wilks and "Spen" King who, like Wilks, was a nephew of brothers Spencer and Maurice Wilks...

at Barnoldswick, staffed primarily by Power Jets personnel. Rover's Maurice Wilks was also aware of the potential of a more efficient design that removed...

1864) 1954 – André Derain, French painter and sculptor (b. 1880) 1963 – Maurice Wilks, English engineer and businessman (b. 1904) 1965 – Dorothy Dandridge...

was frequently run off-road on the farm belonging to chief engineer Maurice Wilks, Land Rover developed the more refined yet still off-road capable luxury...

poet, grew up in Hartley Wintney. Spencer Wilks (1891–1971), president of the Rover Company and Maurice Wilks (1904–63), Chairman of the Rover Company...

idea had been Maurice Wilks from finding out how useful his old Wartime Jeep was at light farming and small jobs about the place. Wilks had found the...

Rover Managing Director Maurice Wilks who, before Bache's arrival had closely overseen all styling. "It's a head turner", Wilks explained, "The Rover Company...

Southampton Chris Wilkinson, tennis player, was born in Southampton Maurice Wilks, automotive engineer, was born in Hayling Island Edmund Willes, cricketer...

Rover had serious problems with surging and turbine blade failures. Maurice Wilks eliminated the surging by adding a 20-vane diffuser to the compressor...

and Chief Medical Officer for England during the COVID-19 pandemic Maurice Wilks (1904–1963), motor and aeronautical engineer, businessman. Conceived...

However, he returned to Rover in 1936 and within four years was part of Maurice Wilks' design team. In April 1940 Lombard began his work with jet engines...

affairs than Whittle. In 1942, Maurice Wilks of Rover met Hives and Hooker in the Swan and Royal in Clitheroe. Wilks and Hives eventually agreed that...