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Gordon Murray Design Limited is a British company operating from Shalford in Surrey.

The company aims to be the world leader in automotive design and reverse the current industry trend for sub-contracting by having a complete in-house capability for design, prototyping and development.

The design team at Gordon Murray Design collectively have over 300 man years of experience working in the automotive industry and in excess of 1100man years of co-working experience. The team use a design and prototyping process has been developed to integrate CAD design, 3 dimensional assemblies and full size drawing to a level of efficiency which is new to the automotive industry.

iStream
iStream is a patented engineering process. It was first announced in February 2009, although development of the process began over 15 years ago.

The process centres on a separate body chassis assembly process. The construction method allows the chassis to be scaled in size for different products with each new design requiring only low-cost tooling and software changes. This flexibility means that the chassis can be used as a standard ‘platform’ to deliver different vehicle types and model variants e.g. car, urban delivery van, taxi, emergency support vehicle. Combining this flexibility with the separate chassis and assembly lines, means that the same factory could be used to manufacture different variants. There is also the future potential to adapt the factory to take in ‘old cars’ to be upgraded, reusing core parts such as the chassis and running gear with significant environmental benefits including reduced landfill and recycling at end-of-life.

T.25
The T.25 is a three seater petrol car which has been specifically designed for city life, bringing together key features needed to be efficient and economical. The vehicle has been optimised for purpose through design for strength, performance, weight, cost, safety, usability, tooling, quality, energy efficiency, recyclability and ease of assembly.

The T.25 external dimensions have been created to suit life in the city, these include: -	Parking at 90 degrees to the curb -	Parking up to 3 cars in one parallel parking space -	Easing traffic flow -	Half the size of a standard car -	2 cars travelling side by side in one lane

T.27
The T.27 is an all-electric three-seater city car, which was made possible through a £4.5m investment from the government-backed Technology Strategy Board. The car is not built using conventional stamped steel construction design, nor with a drivetrain using existing gearboxes, motors or batteries. Instead, the car is made by applying iStream® methodology, a new manufacturing process developed by Gordon Murray Design and fully integrating it with a custom-designed lightweight, highly efficient drivetrain from Zytek. This holistic approach results in a car slightly smaller on the outside than a Smart Car, but with more interior space.

Key People
Professor Gordon Murray – Founder, CEO and Technical Director Gordon Murray was born in Durban, South Africa in 1946 and gained a Mechanical Engineering Diploma from Natal Technical College. He designed, built and raced his own sports car (IGM Ford) in the National Class in SA during 1967 and 68. In 1969 Gordon moved to the UK and joined the Brabham Formula One Team as Technical Director, winning two world championships (1981 & 1983) during his 17 years with the team. Gordon joined McLaren Racing as Technical Director in 1988 and three consecutive championship wins in 1988, 1989 & 1990 followed. 1990 saw a move for Gordon away from Formula One, after 50 Grand Prix wins, to enable him to concentrate his efforts on establishing a new company for the Group – McLaren Cars Ltd. The Company’s first project, the F1 Road Car is still regarded as the world’s best engineered car. A racing version won two world sports car championships and the Le Mans 24-hour race on its first attempt in 1995. McLaren Cares then completed several other successful projects culminating with the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren programme. Gordon left the McLaren Group in 2005 to set up Gordon Murray Design and to design a highly innovative environmental car.

Huw Owen – Managing Director Huw Own has 23 years’ experience within the computer and IT infrastructure industry managing strategic business relationships with some of the world’s largest organisations including BP, Shell, Nestlé, IBM, Compaq and Hewlett-Packard. Latterly Huw spent 8 years within Compucenter PLC where he was Managing Director of International Computer Group (ICG).

Huw met Gordon Murray when he worked with Creighton Brown (ex-Commercial Director McLaren Cars) for 5 years establishing an Anglo-Brazilian project. As Managing Director, Huw works with Gordon in designing, developing and implementing the strategic business plan for Gordon Murray Design.

Frank Coppuck – Engineering Director Frank completed his apprenticeship at Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough and later gained a degree from Kingston School of Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering. Dureing his 10 year career at McLaren Cars Frank held the position of Head of Vehicle Development and was responsible for the F1 GTR Race Car development programme which included FIA GT, Le Mans and the Japan GT Championship.

Frank then moved on to head the development programme for the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren. Prior to this he had experience in both Formula One and Aerospace and worked with such companies as Team Lotus, Tyrrel Racing and British Aerospace.

Berry Lett – Design Director Barry as over 20 years experience within the automotive industry holding senior positions at McLaren Cars, as Head of Vehicle Design being responsible for conceptual design and vehicle technical package, and at Lotus Engineering as Senior Vehicle Engineer. Barry has worked directly with Gordon Murray for over 15 years and has led design teams on projects which include the F1 Road Car & GTR Race Car, Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren and the MP4-98T, 2 Seater Formula One Car.

Key dates

 * July 2007 – Gordon Murray Design is established
 * April 2008 – US based venture investor MDV-Mohr Davidow Ventures and UK based Caparo Group invest in Gordon Murray Design
 * October 2008 – His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh visits Gordon Murray Design
 * February 2009 – Gordon Murray Design Officially launches T.25 and iStream process
 * November 2009 – Gordon Murray Design and Zytek Auotmotive announce electric city car programme – the T.27
 * June 2010 – T.25 debuts at Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment World Forum
 * November 2010 – Gordon Murray Design announce technical partners for iStream and City Car projects – Michelin, Shell and IPE Engineering;
 * November 2010 – T.25 wins two trophies in RAC Brighton to London Future Car Challenge
 * November 2010 – Gordon Murray Design wins SMMT Automotive Innovation Award 2010
 * July 2011 – Gordon Murray Design announce partnership with ACAL Energy to create an affordable fuel cell vehicle;
 * September 2011 – Gordon Murray Design and Toray announce plans to create an electric sports car – the T.32
 * November 2011 – Gordon Murray Design’s T.27 electric car wins ‘Most Energy Efficient Small Car (Prototype)’, ‘Best Overall Pure Electric Vehicle’ and ‘Best Overall Entry – RAC Future Car Challenge Winner’ at RAC Future Car Challenge
 * January 2012 – Gordon Murray Design announces Toray Industries as technical partner

Notable Wins/Developments

 * June 2008 – Gordon Murray honoured by Durban University of Technology with Silver Tusk award which is presented to alumni who have made significant achievements;
 * November 2008 – Gordon Murray awarded ‘Idea of the Year’ accolade at Autocar’s annual awards in recognition of T.25
 * November 2010 – T.25 wins two trophies in RAC Brighton to London Future Car Challenge
 * November 2010 – Gordon Murray Design wins SMMT Automotive Innovation Award 2010 for its iStream Manufacturing Process
 * January 2011 – T.27 crash test results have a major breakthrough in car safety with zero cabin intrusion from the mandatory EEC 40% offset deformable barrier front high speed impact test
 * November 2011 – Gordon Murray Design’s T.27 electric car wins ‘Most Energy Efficient Small Car (Prototype)’, ‘Best Overall Pure Electric Vehicle’ and ‘Best Overall Entry – RAC Future Car Challenge Winner’ at RAC Future Car Challenge