John Towers (businessman) John Towers (businessman) John Towers CBE (born 30 March 1948) is an English businessman, who was the owner and managing director of MG Rover Group from 2000 until the company entered administration in 2005. This followed a succession of senior appointments within Rover, which he had joined from Massey Ferguson in 1988. Towers started his career in 1966 as a student apprentice with Perkins Engines of Peterborough, which by that time had become a subsidiary of Massey Ferguson. He rose within Perkins to become Director of Engineering before leaving in 1988 to join the Rover Group. Together with Peter Beale,
John W. Stephenson John W. Stephenson Sir John Walker Stephenson (1888 – 15 May 1960) was a British trade unionist. Born in Northumberland, Stephenson completed an apprenticeship as a plumber and joined the United Operative Plumbers and Domestic Engineers Association of Great Britain and Ireland. He was active in the union for many years before winning election as its general secretary in 1929. As general secretary, Stephenson was prominent in the wider trade union movement, serving as the Trade Union Congress' delegate to the American Federation of Labour in 1938, as President of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions from 1939 to