John Towers (businessman) ground until it finally collapsed with the loss of 6,500 jobs. PVH gave members of management "unreasonably large" payouts, a government-commissioned report found, which were "out of all proportion". Towers awarded himself £8.958m whilst many employees lost their lifetime jobs - leaving with nothing. Nanjing Automobile subsequently brought MG out of administration, but have since moved production to China. 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
Peter and Gunvor Edwards illustrations were of some inspiration to Edgar Hodges in his illustrations of the 1979 and 1980 annuals. 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