Hub van Doorne

Van Doorne was keen to take on his father's business, but was considered too young: instead he became an apprentice in the small Mandiger machine factory of nearby Eindhoven.

With financial support from the brewery by whom he had been employed ten years earlier,[1] van Doorne returned to self-employment in April 1928, establishing his own metal based manufacturing and repair business, concentrating on items such as cabinets, ladders, window frames and, increasingly, trailers which led to the business being renamed in 1932 as van Doorne's Aanhangwagenfabriek (DAF).

It was on account of the move into powered vehicles that the firm's name was changed again to Van Doorne's Automobielfabriek (DAF).

Their Van Doorne transmission, using a belt drive between two adjustable coned pulleys, was widely used as the Variomatic in small DAF cars.

He was buried at the local Jacobshof cemetery where today his body lies in a protected area beside those of his wife and three of his children Anny (1930–2004), Jeffrey (1932–2006) and Piet (1934–1982).