Guy Buckingham [SEP] date of death
Guy Buckingham
Guy Buckingham (11 February 1921 – 17 November 2015) was an English aircraft engineer who established the Australian automobile manufacturer Nota in 1952 in Oxford before taking it to Australia in 1955. Buckingham employed his expertise in English racing car and aircraft design in the manufacturing of new Australian racing cars. He used aircraft technology to help build triangulated, multi-tubular, space framed racing cars, which had in the past been seen in Australia only as imported automobiles.
Before going to Australia, Buckingham took on the
artist for the San Francisco Opera and the San Francisco Ballet until her death.
Notable owners of Betty Guy works.
When Queen Elizabeth II visited San Francisco with Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in the 1980s, she was presented with a Betty Guy painting as a gift from the Port of San Francisco. The Port director was sent a letter from Buckingham Palace that read "thank you for the splendid painting by Betty Guy...the picture will always awaken some very happy memories of their stay in your lovely city.