William Heynes

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William Munger Heynes (December 31, 1904-September, 1989),^[1] born in Leamington Spa, was a British automobile engineer.

Heynes was educated at Warwick School from 1914 to 1921 before joining the Humber Car Company in Coventry in 1922 where he worked in the drawing office becoming head of it in 1930.

In 1935, after the Rootes group takeover he left to join SS Cars Ltd also in Coventry. Initially he worked on the chassis but also was involved in increasing the output of the Standard Motor Company engines then being used.

After World War II, SS Cars was renamed Jaguar and Heynes persuaded the chairman William Lyons that the company should make its own range of engines. The result was the XK engine. As well as engine development Heynes also worked on many of the cars including the Mark V, the racing C-Type and D-Type, the Mark VII, E-Type and Mark X.

He retired from Jaguar in 1969.

[edit] See also

• Harry Mundy
• Walter Hassan

[edit] References

Persondata
NAME	Heynes, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	automobile engineer
DATE OF BIRTH	1904-12-31
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leamington Spa
DATE OF DEATH	1989-09
PLACE OF DEATH