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John Dodd (13 December 1932 — 6 December 2022) was an Epsom engineer, and automatic transmission specialist. Dodd was the creator of the aero-engined car, "The Beast", which featured in several television programmes, and received large-scale press coverage during Dodd's legal disputes with Rolls-Royce, over his use of the firms' radiator grill and Spirit of Ecstasy.
John Dodd (tea merchant) (fl. 1860s), Scottish merchant and author on Formosa, pioneer of Taiwan's tea industry; John Dodd (Wells MP) (c. 1693–1719), English Member of Parliament for Wells, 1717–1719; John L. Dodd, American lawyer and 116th President General of the Sons of the American Revolution; Johnny Dodd (1941–1991), American ...
The Beast (mk2) at Wings and Wheels in 2014.. In the 1960s, engineer Paul Jameson put a Rolls-Royce Meteor engine into a chassis he built himself. [3] He did not get around to building a body, and sold the car to Epsom-based automatic transmission specialist John Dodd, who had supplied the automatic gearbox.
Many sources [6] report that the jockey who died in the 1881 Melbourne Cup was George Dodd and that he was one of Australia's most famous jockeys at the time. The Australian Jockeys Association memorial at Caulfield Racecourse records a G. Dodd but no J. Dodd. [7] This story dates back at least to a 1949 article by "The Storyteller" in a Victorian regional newspaper [8] which adds that Dodd ...
Johnny Dodd (aka John P. Dodd) (June 25, 1941 – July 15, 1991) was an off-off-Broadway lighting designer for theater, dance and music concerts in the downtown art scene in Lower Manhattan during the latter half of the 20th century.
[2] [4] Todd also claimed that John F. Kennedy was still alive and that he had been Kennedy's "personal warlock". [2] [4] While Todd claimed to have left witchcraft in 1972 and converted to fundamentalist Christianity, accounts have him being baptized into a Oneness Pentecostal church in Phoenix, Arizona in 1968, and leading a Wiccan group in ...
John Dodds may refer to: John Dodds (motorcyclist), Australian motorcycle racer; John Dodds (footballer), Scottish footballer; John M. Dodds, Scottish electrical engineer; Sir John Stokell Dodds, Australian politician and Chief Justice of Tasmania; Johnny Dodds, American jazz musician
John Dodds on the Nürburgring. John Dodds (13 November 1943 – 27 January 2024) was an Australian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He competed on the Grand Prix circuit from 1966 to 1978. His best finish was a third place behind Dieter Braun and Teuvo Länsivuori in the 1973 250cc world championship. [1] Dodds died in January 2024, at the ...