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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.
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 Dodd was born in 1863 at Avoca, Victoria, Australia. His father was Aaron Dodd, a native of Leicestershire, England, who was convicted of burglary and transported for life to Van Diemens Land in 1828. In 1840 Aaron married Mary Jane White.
John Dodd (1752 in London – 1839 in Richmond, Surrey) was a British bowmaker. He was considered to be the greatest English bowmaker before and until James Tubbs. [1] He was a gunlock fitter and then a money scale maker before turning to bow making. John Dodd was a contemporary of François Tourte and worked in London. He arrived at a similar ...
Christopher John Dodd (born May 27, 1944) is an American lobbyist, lawyer, and Democratic Party politician who served as a United States senator from Connecticut from 1981 to 2011. Dodd is the longest-serving senator in Connecticut's history. He previously served in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1981.
John Dodd (October 25, 1838 - July 15, 1907) was a Scottish merchant who helped promote Taiwan tea to the west in the late 19th century. In 1860, he arrived at Taiwan to do some research for the first time. [ 1 ]