Charles Morgan (automaker)

Charles Peter Henry Morgan (born 29 July 1951)[1] is the former managing director of the Morgan Motor Company, a UK car manufacturer.

Charles Morgan
Born29 July 1951[1]
NationalityBritish
OccupationBusinessman
Known forMorgan Motor Company (managing director)

The grandson of the founder of the company, H.F.S. Morgan, and the son of the company's former chairman Peter Morgan, Charles Morgan joined the family firm full-time in 1985. Previously he had worked for 10 years as a news cameraman for ITN and then briefly in the publishing industry.[2] After the Morgan Motor Company was featured on the BBC's Troubleshooter in 1991, he obtained an MBA.[3] In 2013, he was removed as Morgan's managing director and continued as strategy director until October 2013, when he was voted off the company's board. He remains a minority shareholder.[4][5]

He and the company and other family shareholders promptly sued each other.

In 2019, he and the family sold their entire interest in the company to InvestIndustriel.

Bibliography

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Morgan, Charles; Bowden, Gregory Houston (2008). Morgan 100 Years: The Official History of the World's Greatest Sports Car. Michael O'Mara Books. ISBN 978-1-84317-267-3.

References

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  1. ^ a b Hill, Ken (2016). Completely Morgan: 4-Wheelers from 1968. Veloce Publishing Ltd. p. 271. ISBN 978-1-84584-945-0. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  2. ^ Morgan Motor Company web-site Archived 26 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Dunne, Helen; “Classic reversal of fortune”, The Telegraph, 12 May 2009
  4. ^ Ping Chan, Szu (18 October 2013). "Charles Morgan describes distress at being ousted from board role". Daily Telegraph. London. Retrieved 12 November 2013.
  5. ^ "Charles Morgan removed from world-famous UK car firm". BBC. 31 October 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2013.