Colin Chapman probably had similar views as he asked a high price for his contribution and insisted that the car ( which became the Lotus Europa ) should be named a Lotus-Ford, an attitude that can be viewed as polite refusal.

It has also been used to describe the plays and novels of Samuel Beckett, the films of Robert Bresson, the stories of Raymond Carver, and even the automobile designs of Colin Chapman.

** Colin Chapman, English automotive engineer ( d. 1982 )

* May 19 – Colin Chapman, Founder of Lotus Cars ( d. 1982 )

* December 16 – Colin Chapman, British designer, inventor, and builder in the automotive industry ( b. 1928 )

Turbine cars were deemed illegal before the following year's race, so Lotus chief Colin Chapman developed the car for use in Formula One and an updated 56B competed in half a dozen Formula One races in 1971.

Both Colin Chapman and Ron Champion have a background in the 750 Motor Club and the design of the Locost is based on a Clubman's Race Car designed and built by Ron Champion in 1963.

In 1971 Lotus principal Colin Chapman introduced the Lotus 56B F1 car, powered by a Pratt & Whitney STN 6 / 76 gas turbine.

The AC Cobra and the Lotus 7 are particularly popular examples, the right to manufacture the Lotus 7 now being owned by Caterham Cars who bought the rights to the car from Lotus founder Colin Chapman in 1973.

Styling of this little car was by Peter Kirwan-Taylor ( better known for his work with Colin Chapman of Lotus cars ), but it proved to be too heavy for the diminutive engine to endow it with adequate performance.

* Colin Chapman, founder of Lotus Cars

* The Colin Chapman Museum and Education Centre-includes a history of Lotus in Hornsey.

In 1963, technical innovator Colin Chapman brought his Team Lotus to Indianapolis for the first time, attracted by the large monetary prizes, far bigger than the usual at a European event.

* Colin Chapman

In 1966, Colin Chapman ( Lotus Cars founder and principal of Team Lotus ) persuaded Ford to bankroll Keith Duckworth's design for a new lightweight Formula One engine.

These design aspects appealed tremendously to the genius of Colin Chapman who used them to the fullest extent.

The company was formed as Lotus Engineering Ltd. by engineer Colin Chapman, a graduate of University College, London, in 1952.

The four letters in the middle of the logo stand for the initials of company founder, Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman.

Classic Team Lotus continues to maintain Lotus F1 cars and run them in the FIA Historic Formula One Championship and it preserves the Team Lotus archive and Works Collection of cars, under the management of Colin Chapman ’ s son, Clive.

The engine is being utilised as a stressed component, a technique pioneered by Colin Chapman in F1, specifically with the 1967 Type 49.

The car was deemed to require almost complete re-engineering, which was turned over to engineer Colin Chapman, founder of Lotus.

Driving a Lotus Elite, he finished second to Colin Chapman in a 10-lap GT race at Brands Hatch.

Colin Chapman was devastated and publicly stated that he had lost his best friend.

Other guests have included Arthur C. Clarke, Astronomer Royal Sir Martin Rees, Arnold Wolfendale, Allan Chapman, Sir Bernard Lovell, Michael Bentine, Wernher von Braun, Open University professors John Zarnecki, Monica Grady, Edwin Maher and Colin Pillinger.

However, advocates of this point of view ignore the many successful and well-adjusted Vietnam veterans who have played important roles in America since the end of the Vietnam War such as Al Gore, Fred Smith ( founder and president of Federal Express ), Colin Powell, John McCain, Craig Venter ( famed for being the first to map the human genome ), and many others.

Earlier alumni include Henry Addington, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Elias Ashmole founder of the Ashmolean Museum, John Buchan, author of The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Clavell, highwayman and author, Colin Cowdrey, English Test batsman, William Webb Ellis, often credited with the invention of Rugby football, John Foxe author of Actes and Monuments popularly abridged as Foxe's Book of Martyrs, William Golding, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, and Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury.

* Jean Grégoire de La Trinité, alias Jean-Gaston Tremblay, from Canada also proclaimed himself Pope Gregory XVII back in 1968 ; however, Tremblay usually styles himself Pope John-Gregory XVII and further, that he is the self styled successor of an ultra-modernist French antipope, Michel Colin ( former Roman Catholic priest of the Sacred Heart missionaries ), founder of the Renovated Church of Christ in 1951 and who went under the name Clement XV since ca.

Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman CBE ( 19 May 1928 – 16 December 1982 ) was an influential English design engineer, inventor, and builder in the automotive industry, and founder of Lotus Cars.

The original Europa used Lotus founder Colin Chapman's minimalist steel backbone chassis that was first used in the Lotus Elan, while also relying on its fibreglass moulded body for structural strength.

* Colin Philpott, another founder of the Cambridge University Broadcasting Society, is Director of the National Media Museum.

Its design, featuring a fibreglass composite body over a rigid steel backbone chassis, was true to Lotus founder Colin Chapman's original philosophy of achieving performance through low weight, and the name " Elan " connected the car with its 1960s ancestor, the original Lotus Elan.

His first solo release, a heavy electronic reworking of Jimmy Ruffin's Motown soul classic ' What Becomes of the Brokenhearted ' featuring guest vocals by The Zombies founder and vocalist Colin Blunstone, reached # 13 in the UK Singles Chart.

* Colin Campbell ( Swedish East India Company ) ( 1686 – 1757 ), Scottish merchant and founder of the Swedish East India Company

For the British GP, Lotus cars founder and Team Lotus principal Colin Chapman started to enter a third car with Emerson Fittipaldi.

It have taken much of its inspiration from the legendary Colin Chapman, the founder of Lotus Cars.

The club's founder and president was Yan Skwara, and during the A-league years its head coaches included Ralf Wilhelms, Costa Skouras, Papo Santos, and Colin Clarke.

It was published by Freedom Press and edited by its founder, Colin Ward.

Three petroleum geologists assisted Heinberg, ASPO founder, Colin Campbell, Jean Laherrere, and Walter Youngquist.

Colin, the founder and first Superior General of the Society of Mary in France about these arrangements for more appropriate care of the remains, Fr.

On June 1, 1850, the remains arrived at the Mother House of the Society of Mary in Lyon, to the great joy, in particular, of Father Colin, founder of the Marists.

Rice is named after the founder of the Christian Brothers, McAuley is named after the founder of the Sisters of Mercy, Colin is named after the founder of the Marists ( Society of Mary ), and Chisolm is named after an Australian pioneer who helped numerous poor women on the wharves of Sydney.