Unknown pleasures

RML specialises in doing things it can't talk about, but its Bespoke division products are changing that. FELIX PAGE finds out more

-  FELIX PAGE

There are few meeting rooms in the British motoring industry that Paul Dickinson hasn't graced.

A real automotive lifer, he started at the Rover Group as an apprentice in 1997 then moved to Jaguar Land Rover's finance department when the company was bought by BMW. Dickinson would later go on to play a pivotal role in bringing the acclaimed LRX concept to production as the Range Rover Evoque. More recently he spent time at Bentley, where he was central to the conception and growth of the Mulliner coachbuilding division, and he was then finance boss at Group Lotus during the period when it was launching its new Chapman Bespoke division.