George Harriman

Sir George William Harriman CBE (3 March 1908 to 29 May 1973) was a leading figure in the British motor industry in the 1960s. He was born in Coventry, the son of a motor machinist, and in 1923 he was apprenticed at the Hotchkiss works in Coventry of Morris Motors Limited. He joined Austin in 1940 and by 1945 had become a director of that company, and in 1961 he was appointed Chairman and Managing Director of the British Motor Corporation. He was also a noted rugby football player, captaining the Coventry and Warwickshire teams in the 1930s and playing briefly for England in 1933, and he was knighted in 1965.