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Automotive News Europe, March, 2002 by Rechtin, Mark
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IN A world where many professionals boast of their academic successes on their business cards, John Parkinson is an exception. Fighting his father's insistence that he attend university, he compromised with an apprenticeship degree in engineering while working on the British Motor Corp. assembly lines.
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A career in the British automobile industry followed, working for brands ranging from Wolseley to Jaguar to Triumph, before joining Rover Cars in 1971. Since then, Parkinson has worked in sales, fleet, commercial development and marketing. Currently, as director of sales and marketing, ...
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