Design studio
Britain’s classic cars were shaped by people as much as by factories. These are the designers, engineers, coachbuilders and design studios behind them, from Alec Issigonis and William Lyons to Vanden Plas and Pininfarina. Each page covers their career, notable designs and the places they worked, and links through to the marques they built for.
Ogle Design
Ogle Design was founded in 1954 by David Ogle at Letchworth, Hertfordshire. After Ogle died in a crash in 1962, Tom Karen led it, and it styled the…
Pininfarina
Pininfarina, founded in Turin by Battista "Pinin" Farina in 1930, styled cars for Ferrari, Alfa Romeo, Lancia and Peugeot. In Britain its best-known link is the Nash-Healey, whose…