Tadek Marek – David Brown’s Secret Weapon
Automotive engineering and Poland are rarely mentioned in the same sentence. The land that once elected its monarchs is better known for Marie Curie, Nicolaus Copernicus and Frederic Chopin. However there is one glorious exception; Mr. Tadeusz Marek. Born in Krakow in 1908 he obtained an engineering degree from Berlin’s Charlottenburg Technical Institute before starting work at FIAT’s Polish subsidiary and later General Motors. A tinkerer at heart, Tadeusz spent some of his s
