Bernard Docker

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Sir Bernard Dudley Frank Docker, Kt, (August 9, 1896 – May 22, 1978) was an English industrialist.

Bernard Docker was born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, the only child of Frank Dudley Docker an industrialist.

Docker was the Managing Director of the Birmingham Small Arms Company group of companies (BSA) from the early 1940s until 1956 and he also chaired the Daimler Motor Company.

He became noted during the 1950s for producing show cars, such as the "Golden Daimler" (1952), "Blue Clover" (1953), the "Silver Flash" and "Stardust" in 1954. He was succeeded by Jack Sangster as Chairman following a 1956 boardroom coup.

Docker's first wife was Jeanne Stuart (née Ivy Sweet), a British actress. They married in 1933 but the marriage was soon dissolved after pressure from Docker's parents. His wife wife was Norah Collins (née Norah Royce Turner), a former showgirl he married in 1949 as her third husband; she was the widow of Sir William Collins, the president of Fortnum & Mason, and widow of Clement Callingham, the head of Henekeys wine and spirits merchants.