Rex garrod biography
Rex Garrod was an inventor and roboteer notable for building the radio controlled car that starred in Brum, and co-presenting The Secret Life of Machines.
Rex Garrod (10 September – 8 April ) was an..
Rex Garrod
British inventor and roboteer (1943–2019)
Rex Garrod (10 September 1943[1] – 8 April 2019) was an inventor and roboteer notable for building the radio controlled car that starred in Brum, and co-presenting The Secret Life of Machines.
He also entered several successful robots into the early series of British TV series Robot Wars.[2][3][4][5]
Early and personal life
Garrod grew up in Mickfield, Suffolk.
He was a speedway rider for the Ipswich Witches (1971) and Scunthorpe Saints (1972–74).[6] He and former motocross racer Dave Bickers then moved into special effects.[1]
Garrod married Sally in 1992, and they had two daughters.[7] He had Alzheimer's disease for the last eight years of his life, and died on 8 April 2019, aged 75.[6][7]
Television work
Brum was a British television series which ran intermittently between 1991 and 2002.
It told the story