John Ackroyd News Today

Built to break the absolute land speed record, these five wingless planes make the Bugatti Chiron and SSC Tuatara look agonizingly slow

It’s the 50th anniversary of the pioneering Enfield 8000 – the UK’s first mass produced electric car – which Mr Ackroyd designed and built.

Did you know that the first British electric car to go into mass production was made right here on the Isle of Wight?

People Media UK marks second anniversary with impactful broadcast partnerships and community engagements - don't miss their films on The One Show

People Media UK is run by producers and Islanders, Barbara Jane Mackie and Tony Steyger.

Red Winter Journey, is now available. Paul Rushworth-Brown is fast becoming one of the worlds established new authors.

Steve Double not only spearheaded Project Geranium, but he is also the brainchild of the Postcard Project, spreading love and kindness across the Island and beyond

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OBITUARY John Ackroyd was famed for the part he played in a number of world records on land, water and in the air. A VISIONARY engineer and family man, known for breaking the land speed world record, has died at the age of 83. John Gilbert Ackroyd was born in Muttra, India, on January 31, 1937 to father Major HJ Ackroyd and mother Kay, and brought up in the foothills of the Himalayas until the age of seven when the family returned to wartime England. Mr Ackroyd was the eldest of two sibli...