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Donald Healey
Donald Mitchell Healey CBE (3 July 1898 – 13 January 1988) was a noted English car designer, rally driver and speed record holder.
== Early life ==
Born in Perranporth, Cornwall, elder son of Frederick (John Frederick) and Emma Healey (née Mitchell) who at that time ran a general store there, Donald Healey became interested in all things mechanical at an early age, most particularly aircraft. He studied engineering while at Newquay College.〔Anne Pimlott Baker, ''Healey, Donald Mitchell (1898–1988), car designer and rally driver'', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, OUP 2004〕 When he left his father bought him an expensive〔 apprenticeship with Sopwith Aviation Company in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey and he joined Sopwith in 1914〔Mr Donald Healey. ''The Times'', Saturday, 16 January 1988; pg. 10; Issue 62979.〕 continuing his engineering studies at Kingston Technical College. Sopwith had sheds at the nearby Brooklands aerodrome and racing circuit. Barely 16 when WW1 started, he volunteered in 1916 (before the end of his apprenticeship〔page 11, Geoffrey Healey, ''Austin Healey, the story of the big Healeys'' Gentry Books, London 1977 ISBN 0-85614-051-1.〕) for the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and earned his "wings" as a pilot. He went on night bombing raids and served on anti-Zeppelin patrols and also as a flying instructor. Shot down by British anti-aircraft 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 November 1917〔 and spent the rest of the war checking aircraft components for the Air Ministry. After the Armistice he returned to Cornwall, took a correspondence course in automobile engineering and opened the first garage in Perranporth in 1920.〔
Donald Healey married Ivy Maud James (she died in 1980) on 21 October 1921 and they had three sons.〔
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