Eric Dymock | |
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| Born | Motherwell, Scotland |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Alma mater | Dalziel High School |
| Occupation | Motoring journalist and author |
Eric Dymock is a motoring writer and Editorial Director of Dove Publishing Ltd. He trained as an engineer and became a freelance journalist in the 1950s and a staff writer in 1962. He has written more than two dozen books and has worked in radio and television. [1]
After working as an engineer, in a period interrupted, by national service, Dymock became a freelance motoring journalist in the late 1950s. His mother was "deeply suspicious" of something she did not consider a proper job, and is reported to have said, "Eric has gone freelance for the moment, but I'm sure something will turn up." Despite her concerns, Dymock's output was sufficient for him to become a founding member, in 1961, and later Honorary Life Member of the Association of Scottish Motoring Writers. [2]
On 6 July 1962, Gordon Hailey, Director of Temple Press Ltd, wrote to Dymock, offering him a job as road tester on The Motor starting in September of that year. To staff journalism he would later add careers as a broadcaster and author. In 1978, Dymock and Clive Jacobs produced Competition Cassettes, [3] covering that year's Grand Prix races along with the Le Mans 24 Hours, the BRDC International Trophy and the Lombard RAC Rally.
Dymock has won four Jet Media Excellence awards including the overall one in 1988. His books Saab, Half A Century of Achievement (1997) and The Complete Bentley (2009) each earned him the Guild of Motoring Writers' Montagu Award, [4] while the first edition of his Jim Clark biography was the runner-up publication in 1997. He won the Association of Scottish Motoring Writers' Jim Clark Award, [5] presented to Scots who achieve excellence in the field of motoring, in 2004, and the ASMW President's Award in 2014. [6]
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