Gerald Wingrove

Gerald Amery Wingrove MBE (1934 - 2019) was a model engineer and author from the United Kingdom.

Wingrove left his job as a lathe operator to create models full-time in November 1967, and launched himself as a freelance model engineer,[2] since which time he has hand crafted in metal almost 280 automobile miniatures in the scales of 1/20 & 1/15th, primarily in 1/15th scale.

In July 2000, Wingrove was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire for craftsmanship, and "services to Model Engineering" In March 2005 Wingrove was awarded ‘Metalworking Craftsman of the Year’, by The Joe Martin Foundation for Exceptional Craftsmanship in the USA.

[3] As well as cars, Wingrove has also created ship models and dioramas, the largest being the 25 square feet model of the village and ship yard of Bucklers Hard, commissioned for the Bucklers Hard Maritime Museum.

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