Lew bandt biography of rory
Lew bandt biography of rory allen.
Lewis Bandt
Australian car designer
Lewis Thornet Bandt (26 February 1910 – 18 March 1987)[1][2] was an Australian car designer, most famous for designing and building the first ute (coupé utility) cars in the 1930s.
Lew bandt biography of rory
Early life
Bandt was born the eldest of five children in the South Australian town of Moonta. The family moved to Adelaide after World War I, and in 1924 he began a fitting and turning apprenticeship with Duncan & Fraser Ltd who specialised in modifying Model T Fords.[2]
He moved to Victoria in 1927 and worked for the Melbourne Motor Body & Assembling Company.
In 1929 he moved to the Ford factory in Geelong as the subsidiary's first designer.[2]
Ute design
The design of the ute was a result of a 1932 letter from an unnamed Victorian farmer's wife asking for "a vehicle to go to church in on a Sunday and which can carry our pigs to market on Mondays".[1] In response, Bandt developed the ute and the