Donald Healey


Donald Mitchell Healey CBE was a noted English car designer, rally driver and speed record holder.

He bought theacres Trebah Estate, near Falmouth, Cornwall in 1961 and carried out many ambitious projects there, including the building of commercial greenhouses to grow orchids and a project to build airsea rescue inflatables. He demolished the concrete covering of the beach of Polgwidden Cove and used the salvaged material to surface a steep track from the house to the beach. . He sold Trebah in 1971. His son, Geoffrey, born in 1922 and a former pupil of Warwick School, wrote several books about the cars and one about their partnership .

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