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Chris Humberstone

THE DIE WAS cast for Chris Humberstone’s 35-year career as a peripatetic car designer and entrepreneur when he was a green, yet extraordinarily confident, 18-year-old trainee at Standard-Triumph.

‘I’d been there four days when I decided I didn’t like it,’ he said. ‘It was very tedious. It was evident I’d be drawing door handles for the first year. Some of the design around me was so inadequate in my eyes that I felt I could do better, even though I

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