Michael Westbrook obituary

My father, Michael Westbrook, who has died aged 88, was one of the first professionally trained electronics engineers in the UK and, during a long career in the field, invented and patented a number of useful devices, including a fuel injection system for cars and a photoelectric fog detector for ships. He also became an early expert in the technology behind electric vehicles.Born an only child into a farming family in Preston Candover, Hampshire, to George and Phyllis (George’s cousin, also b