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Arthur G Wilson

Arthur George Wilson was born in Bletchley, Bucks in June 1936. He was educated at the local secondary school and then at Wolverton Technical College. He started a six year apprenticeship at the London Brick Company and specialised in engines. He joined Aston Martin in the early part of 1959 on engine build and soon transferred to the rectification department to look after engines and engine tuning. He then moved to the experimental department as test bed engineer. This progressed to development engineer and senior development engineer at Aston Martin Tickford. During this time he worked on the early Lagonda, the Vantage and the 1980 versions of all three engines and many of the racing customer’s engines including the John Pope Special twin turbo, the Tickford endurance race engine and the V12 Weslake engine, the Tickford Capri and the Frazer Metro.

In 1984 he was offered the position in charge of engine development back at AML where he developed the 580X Vantage engine, the 32-valve engine and the design and development for the twin supercharged 32-valve Vantage engine, and the engine for the normally aspirated V8 Coupe. He is married with one daughter and has an interest in classic cars, which has resulted in him restoring an MGA and an MG Midget. He also owns a Jaguar XJ6 and a 1988 Vauxhall 3.0 GSi Carlton.