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straight-eight sports car in 1935 following his class win, and 3rd overall, in the 1934 Monte Carlo Rally in a
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fire on one of the first night bomber missions of the war, after a further series of crashes he was invalided out of the RFC in
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Michael's Church Perranporth was provided by the Austin-Healey Club of America. The Austin Healey Club has also placed a small monument, in the form of a sports car, and an inscribed plaque, as a memorial to Donald Healey, next to the Visitor Centre in the
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using an Austin instead of the Tait developed Riley 2.5-litre engine and gearbox displaying it first at the
October 1952 Earls Court motor show in London. The Morris-Austin merger had brought on BMC's decision to phase out the (Morris) Riley unit. His new factory, Cape Works, could not supply the
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A Nash-Healey was driven by Donald Healey at Le Mans in 1950. Team members Duncan
Hamilton & Tony Rolt's car finished 4th overall after suffering serious mechanical damage when hit from behind by a brakeless Delage. Donald Healey also drove a Nash-Healey in the
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Falmouth, Cornwall in 1961 and carried out many ambitious projects there, including the building of commercial greenhouses to grow orchids and a project to build air/sea rescue inflatables. He demolished the concrete covering of the beach of
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to build Nash-engined Healey sports cars. The first series of the 2-seaters were built in 1951 and they were designed by Healey with styling and aerodynamic input from
Benjamin Bowden. The same all-enveloping theme was used by Bowden on the
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Healey's first car appeared in 1946, the Healey Elliot, a saloon with a Riley engine, developed by Dr J.N.H Tait. Following his
Triumphs it won the 1947 and 1948 alpine rallies and the touring class of the 1948
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Healey found rally driving and motor racing more interesting than his garage and its car hire business and used the garage to prepare cars for competition. He first entered the
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in 1939 but Healey remained on the premises as works manager for H M Hobson making aircraft engine carburettors for the
Ministry of Supply. Later in the war he worked with
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running gear and prototyped it using
Vauxhall and Ford engines, which either had insufficient power, did not fit the sloping bonnet, or were unable to comply with the
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on armoured cars. Donald Healey was keen to begin making his own cars, planning post-war sports cars with colleague and chassis specialist Achille Sampietro.
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as experimental manager. The next year he was made technical director and responsible for the design of all Triumph cars. He created the
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aerodrome and racing circuit. Barely 16 when WW1 started, he volunteered in 1916 (before the end of his apprenticeship) for the
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842:"News and Views: Donald Healey is Jensen Chairman".
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