Category:Maurice Wilks

**Maurice Wilks**
	British automobile designer
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Date of birth	19 August 1904; Hayling Island
Date of death	8 September 1963; Newborough
Country of citizenship	United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act 1927, –1927);
Educated at	Malvern College;
Occupation	inventor; entrepreneur; car designer;
Sibling	Spencer Wilks;
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English: Maurice Wilks was the Chairman of the Rover Company from 1961 until his death in 1963. He was responsible for the first Land Rover model in 1947 and involved in the design of the Rover JET gas turbine powered car, which built on Rover and Wilks' experience building jet engines during World War 2.