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Philip Dunn

Philip Howard Milton Dunn was born in 1917. He was Standard Motor Co. staff number 473.

Pic one is Philip Dunn in front of Body in White main body framing fixture, with body side framework clamped to body. Philip is looking in an electrical control cabinet which controls a spot welder which is lying on the floor.

He tried to enlist in the Royal Navy with Harry Webster at the start of World War Two but they were turned down because they were engineers and were therefore reserved occupations. Philip would later be Harry Webster’s best man at Harry’s wedding.

Electrical switchgear outside ex-RAF T2 hangar with the main door open at the far end.

Philip went to India around 1949 and set up the Standard CKD factory and assembly facilities for the Standard Vanguard. It was based in an ex-RAF aircraft hangar at Perugalathir, Chennai.

He married in 1954 Terry Wright, whom he met during the war. Terry worked at SMC as a secretary for senior management in the 1950s.

Philip also worked in Ceylon, Brazil, the Caribbean and possibly South Africa and Kenya for SMC.

A rolling Vanguard chassis completed and probably ready to have the body dropped on to it

Philip died in September 1981.
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