Career

Towns began his training as a designer at Rootes in 1954, where he was mainly involved in the styling of seats and door handles. Later he was also involved with the styling of their Hillman Hunter. He moved to Rover in 1963 and worked there for David Bache and designed the body of the Rover-Biological Response Modifiers gas turbine Le Mans car.

In 1966 he left Rover to join Aston Martin as a seat designer, eventually becoming the force behind the Aston Martin Lagonda.

He left Aston Martin after the Lagonda for more remunerative industrial design work in 1977, but as a freelance designer, worked on the Jensen-Healey, the successful Hustler kit-car, the Reliant SS2 and the short-lived Railton F28/F29. Towns died from cancer in June 1993, at his home in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire.

Up until July 2005 his own cars were on display at the Heritage Motor Centre, Gaydon, United Kingdom.

1964 Rover-Biological Response Modifiers gas turbine car (with David Bache)

1967 Aston Martin DBS

1972 Jensen-Healey

1972 Minissima

1974 Aston Martin Lagonda

1976 Microdot

1976 Aston Martin Lagonda Series 2

1978 Hustler

1980 Aston Martin Bulldog

1985 TXC Tracer

1988 Reliant SS2

1989 Railton F28 Fairmile and F29 Claremont.