Charles Chapman

Charles Wallace Chapman (4 August 1897 - December 1979) was a British mechanical engineer, who designed the first diesel engine suitable for an automobile, the high speed diesel engine (compression ignition engine). Early life He was born in Lancaster, Lancashire. He attended Lancaster Royal Grammar School. He served in the First World War as a lieutenant in the RNVR. He later gained a master's degree in engineering from the University of Liverpool. Career