Bernard Docker

Who was Bernard Docker?

Sir Bernard Dudley Frank Docker was an English industrialist.

Bernard Docker was born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, the only child of Frank Dudley Docker, an industrialist.

Docker was the managing director of the Birmingham Small Arms Company group of companies from the early 1940s until 1956 and he also chaired The Daimler Company Limited.

He became noted during the 1950s for producing show cars, such as the "Golden Daimler", "Blue Clover", the "Silver Flash" and "Stardust" in 1954. He was succeeded by Jack Sangster as Chairman of BSA, following a 1956 boardroom coup.