The incredible legacy of an engineering genius

A revolutionary supercar created by a legendary Gloucestershire engineer, that's smashing speed and lap records wherever it goes, has achieved what many thought impossible!

Dear reader,

Welcome to the Monday edition of The Raikes Journal.

Today we lead on a quite incredible and really rather fun story about a Gloucestershire business turning heads in the world of motorsport and engineering with its achievements.

We particularly liked the story about McMurtry Automotive because it celebrates the genius that was Sir David McMurtry.

Few have laid down such a marker in both business and professional achievement as Sir David.

When he died aged 84 on December 9 last year, Renishaw, the Wotton-under-Edge engineering firm he founded in 1973 with fellow Rolls-Royce engineer, John Deer, had long been a household name and global success story.

His name was on 47 patents at Rolls-Royce and more than 150 at Renishaw and he was widely regarded in engineering circles as a genius.

McMurtry Automotive, a business he founded while in his seventies, continues, and is proof that he never stopped breaking boundaries and being excited by innovation and potential.

We think it’s an ins…