Ron Hickman the 105E Ford Anglia. He became the director of Lotus Engineering in the 1960s, designing the first Lotus Europa as part of Lotus's GT40 project bid. He left Lotus in 1967. Hickman invented the wood-and-steel foldable Workmate bench after sawing through a piece of wood into a chair used as support, when making a wardrobe. His offer of a licence for the product he developed was rejected by several companies who could not see a large market for it, so Hickman sold the benches himself to professional builders at trade shows until Black & Decker saw the light in 1973
Simon Cox (car designer) Show and seeing the Porsche 928 for the first time. Cox is a highly experienced and ex-RCA designer, he is well known for his independence of spirit and for producing ICONIC Designs that have set well-known brands on new paths. He was sponsored by Ford Motor Company while at the RCA, but he elected to move to Lotus where he set up a new designstudio with Peter Stevens, producing several Lotus designs including the Lotus Esprit, Lotus Elan and Isuzu 4200R concept launched at the Tokyo Motor Show in 1988. Cox then moved to Isuzu establishing a UK based design