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Issue 55 of The World of Personal Number Plates features three exclusive interviews with men who have, between them, got the aspirational lifestyle thing pretty much nailed. George Bamford, Adam Thorby and Tommy Mallet have very different stories and they have found very different niches in which to make their marks. That said, they still have traits in common - passion being the most prominent.
George Bamford
George Bamford is the grandson of the founder of every small boy's favourite company - JCB of big, yellow digger fame. George's father, Anthony Bamford, is that company's current chairman but George himself is immersed in engineering on an altogether more delicate scale. His Bamford Watch Department and Bamford London brands marry fine wristwatches with a touch of slightly rebellious personalisation.
The things of childhood
Just as men seem to retain a certain fondness for heavy plant machinery long after they should have grown out of the childish-excitement phase, George has maintained his enthusiasm for his own boyhood obsessions and heroes. The sense of cool that inspires his design ethic has its roots in the James Bond and Steve McQueen movies he used to watch with his father. McQueen and 007 also helped ignite George's burning passion for cars.
Adam Thorby
Adam Thorby is the man behind Supercar Driver (SCD). Once again, we find a man whose trajectory seems to have been set when he was a boy. Despite his father being a racing car designer, Adam's own childhood was surprisingly starved of cool family cars.
Raison d'être
When a young boy with a love of supercars meets a neighbour with a nice car but no reason to drive it, everyone wins. Adam's adult project continues that good work and his legendary SCD events give grateful supercar owners good reason to unwrap their pride and joy from its protective cotton wool cocoon, reverse out of the garage and get driving.
Tommy Mallet
Tommy Mallet's start in life was, he would probably agree, less than glamorous but somewhere along the way, he found the motivation to transform his fortunes. His first taste of fame came from reality TV, when he fell into a place in the cast of The Only Way Is Essex. However, rather than ride the wave of superficial fame and seek a career as yet another fake-tanned TV celeb, Tommy decided to use the leg-up TOWIE provided to get himself started as a businessman.
Finding that niche
Initially trying his hand as a nightclub owner, Tommy finally found a role that worked for him. Coming, as he did, from modest roots where luxuries didn't come easily, he recognised that working people whose means didn't stretch to silly prices still desired nice things. Before long, he had designed a range of stylish affordable trainers that he worked to place with leading retailers. The simple, affordable-quality recipe worked and Tommy's was named in the Forbes 30 under 30 list of most influential entrepreneurs.
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