Who designed the Mayflower?
Vic Hammond (Chief Stylist and Body Engineer, Standard Triumph 1955 – 1960) told me; “Sir John Black gave Lesley Moore of Mulliners (of Bordesley Breen, Birmingham and not H.J Mulliner of Northampton) the brief to design a 10hp car. After a week or so of little apparent progress Ted Grinham was sent to Mulliners to give a rollicking to all concerned. Lesley Moore came up with the basic design for the Mayflower and Walter Belgrove (then Chief Stylist and Body Engineer at Standard Triumph) created a clay model from Moore’s design – there was no plywood mock up. I designed the radiator grille and front bumper and Les Island designed the fascia. I made up the first working drawings for the Mayflower and Arthur Ballard created the first prototype, mostly on existing mechanicals, with help from Jim Percival, Director of Engineering at Fischer Ludlow.” Walter Belgrove recalled; “I believe, although I cannot be sure, that the model which came to be known as the Triumph Mayflower was on the sto
