Henry Ronald Godfrey

Born near London, Ron met Archie Nash at London's Finsbury Technical School and after obtaining his City & Guilds diploma in Mechanical Engineering he completed an apprenticeship at Willans & Robinson in Rugby, Warwickshire where the slightly younger Archie soon followed him to do the same training.

Archie designed the hydraulic gun turret that was to be widely used in World War II.

In 1935 Archie Nash took this business into Parnall Aircraft and Ron Godfrey moved to a new enterprise.

Fully established in 1936, the company produced cars until 1956, and then reverted to development engineering work for others, before ceasing trading in 1966.

[4] Ron Godfrey retired in 1958 to a nearby water mill which he took great pleasure in rebuilding.