Amherst Villiers

He designed a land speed record-breaking car for Malcolm Campbell, and developed the supercharged "Blower Bentley", driven by Henry Birkin and (in fiction) by James Bond.

Villiers began his automotive career modifying Brescia Bugattis and supercharging a Vauxhall for racing driver Raymond Mays.

[2] Apart from the racing specials, fifty production blower Bentleys were built in order that the car could be entered at Le Mans.

In 1930 he bought from the Air Ministry one of the Gloster IV biplanes which had been used by the RAF High Speed Flight as practice machines for the Schneider Trophy.

After the war he joined the "Brain drain" of scientists and engineers moving to the United States to work on the space programme.