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Malcolm Sayer

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Malcolm Sayer (died 1970) was a designer of Jaguar cars. He was one of the first engineers to apply principles of aerodynamics to car design.

His designs include:

Born in Cromer in 1916

Education: Great Yarmouth Grammar School (Where his father taught Maths and Art) 

          Loughborough College

Worked for Bristol Aeroplane Company during WW2 (reserved occupation) then went to Iraq in 1948 to work at Baghdad University which turned out to exist only on paper so worked instead maintaining fleet of government vehicles. Returned 1950. Joined Jaguar 1951.

Married with 3 children

Used slide rule and seven-figure log tables to work out formulae he invented for drawing curves (This sort of thing now done with computers)

Apart from design skill was also very good musician and played piano and guitar and other sundry instrumentsde:Malcolm Sayer


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