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
Brian Reynolds (game designer) Brian Reynolds (game designer) Brian Reynolds (born 1967) is an American videogame designer who now designs online social games (e.g. on Facebook). Reynolds has designed at SecretNewCo, Zynga, Big Huge Games, Firaxis Games, and MicroProse and has been chairman of the International Game Developers Association. He has played a major part in designing a number of multi-million selling games including "Civilization II", "Rise of Nations", "Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri", and "FrontierVille". He has also founded or co-founded three game companies, SecretNewCo, Big Huge Games, and Firaxis Games. Reynolds made his first game sale with Quest 1 to "SoftSide" magazine, its