ABOUT ME
Meet the creator of Bug EV - Roy Campbell
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Roy has been designing and manufacturing a wide range of electronic products for more than 40 years primarily for the professional audio and TV broadcasting markets.
EARLY DAYS
It all started with cassette recorders and achieving the greatest success with themed music players for most of the pubs, clubs, gyms, and restaurants in the 2000s, where music was an important part of their offer.
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This was a case of right place, right time. Realising that MP3s would allow accurate and flexible programming of music, Roy signed the first digital music playback licence in Europe in 1998 - 3 years before iTunes launched - and went on to produce Windows-based professional audio players.
PLACEHOLDER ROY
A LOVE OF CLASSIC CARS
His interest in classic cars is inherited from his dad who showed him how to keep old cars going, everything from a 1927 3-litre Bentley to a rusty 1960 Mini.
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A chip off the old block, he bought a 1952 Sunbeam Talbot for £25 and nursed it through several MoTs before getting into racing a Triumph TR2 in the ‘80s and becoming a Triumph devotee.
CATCHING THE BUG
The idea for creating a new, aerodynamic car came from buying and restoring a wrecked special, the WB120, which it later transpired had been designed and built by two highly intelligent scientists between 1956 and 1963, in a single garage in Rickmansworth.
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Bob White was director of Rank Research Laboratories and Dr John Best was patents director for EMI, hence the initials WB, the 120, referring to the (achieved) top speed.
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The Bug EV is the second stage in developing and proving the electric chassis, and the AeroBug is the streamlined, low drag development which will deliver the end goal of 10 Miles per Kilowatt hour.
