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,
Peter and Gunvor Edwards Peter and Gunvor Edwards Peter Edwards (1934 - 2017) and Gunvor Edwards (1934 - 2014) were two Swedish/English impressionistic artists who illustrated several of the Railway Series books by the Rev. W. Awdry from 1963 to 1972. Gunvor died at the age of eighty on 23 April 2014 after a battle with dementia, and Peter died at the age of eighty-three on 3 April 2017 from cancer. They illustrated the books: After John T. Kenney resigned from the Railway Series due to failing eyesight, editor Eric Marriot decided to ask Swedish-born artist Gunvor Edwards to see whether she would try