Gerald Wingrove
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Gerald A. Wingrove MBE is a model engineer
and author
from the United Kingdom
.
s and car
s for nearly four decades. Working with his wife Phyllis, he creates about four automobile models, always by request and usually on a 1:15 scale, every year, and buyers pay anywhere from £10,000 to £25,000 for a completed model. His work was featured on Top Gear in 1998. In July 2000, he was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire
for craftsmanship.
Model engineering
Model engineering is the hobby of constructing machines in miniature. The term was in use by 1888. There is some debate about the appropriateness of the term...
and author
Author
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from the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
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.
Biography
Wingrove has produced extremely detailed miniature models of shipShip
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s and car
Čar
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s for nearly four decades. Working with his wife Phyllis, he creates about four automobile models, always by request and usually on a 1:15 scale, every year, and buyers pay anywhere from £10,000 to £25,000 for a completed model. His work was featured on Top Gear in 1998. In July 2000, he was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire
Order of the British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...
for craftsmanship.