[2] Goddard began working on testing World War II aero engines, for problems in operating at high altitude.
The Land Rover project idea had been Maurice Wilks from finding out how useful his old Wartime Jeep was at light farming and small jobs about the place.
Tom Barton one of the original team from 1947 was put in charge of the Land Rovers Engineering after Pogmore had been moved to an administration role.
Part of the brief to develop the Land Rover idea but also to find out as much as they could about farming machinery and potential uses for the new vehicle, which was hugely successful from its launch at the 1948 Amsterdam Motor Show.
Numerous photos exist of Goddard and his development driver Johnny Cullen testing the first pre-production Land Rover.
Throughout his career he has worked with many leading automotive engineers, including Spen King, Alec Issigonis, Norman Dewis and Giulio Alfieri.
Goddard was latterly chief engineer of his own family-run business, Vehicle Components Pty Ltd, in Brisbane, Australia, that specialize in off-road trailer and caravan hitches and suspension systems.
Bishop had been collating data on early engineering prototype Land Rovers for a number of years, many of which were dispatched directly to Goddard in the late 1940s and instantly knew his name.
In a joint effort by Massey and Bishop, and series of interviews were planned and put to Arthur to look at the early days of the vehicle's development and production from an insider's point of view.
[4] Arthur has since become the patron of a local Australian Land Rover enthusiast club and interviewed numerous times about the vehicle's origins.