Geoffrey Healey
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Geoffrey Cannon Healey (1922-1994), British car designer, was born in Perranporth, Cornwall, the son of Donald Healey and his wife Maud, on December 14th 1922. He died on April 29th 1994.
Initially a pupil at Truro School, he transferred to Emscote Lawn School, Warwick in 1934, when his father started to be employed by the Triumph Motor Company in Coventry as their Experimental Manager. Geoffrey moved to Warwick School in April 1937, and took his School Certificate there in 1939.
In the early part of the Second World War he became an apprentice at Cornercroft in Coventry and studied engineering at Coventry Technical College. He joined the new REME corps of the Army in late 1943, serving in Syria and the Lebanon.
Demobilised in 1947, he joined Armstrong Siddeley Motors as a development engineer. He stayed there for two years, before joining his father Donald in Warwick, also as Development Engineer.
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