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 F. Stephenson RV-6 light aircraft he was piloting crashed in a house in the Melbourne suburb of Chelsea. John F. Stephenson John Stephenson (14 May 1937 – 14 October 2014) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL). The son of Jack Stephenson, who also played for Carlton, he was recruited from Benalla, but only played a single league game in 1958. In 1989 he was a passenger on United Airlines Flight 811, where 9 people died after being blown out of the plane when the cargo door failed mid flight. Stephenson was seated 11