Jord Farrangur
Jordyn Aldryk Farrangur II | |
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| Born | |
| Died | February 24, 2009 (aged 98) |
| Cause of death | Illness (Pancreatic Cancer) |
| Burial place | Cheapside Hill Cemetery, Dunnmaar, DAR |
| Nationality | Ottonia North Ottonia |
| Citizenship | Ottonia North Ottonia |
| Education | Bachelor's Degree |
| Alma mater | Dunnmaar Republic University |
| Occupation | Automotive Designer |
| Years active | 1926 - 2005 |
| Employer | Ottonian Federal Government Ottomoto |
| Known for | Automotive Engineer |
Notable work | Design of Otmo Buro, Otmo Ocks, Otmo MUV, and Otmo Billy vehicles |
| Spouse(s) | Alfryd Kynyk |
| Children | Jordyn Farrangur III, Rona Farrangur |
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Jord Farrangur (full name: Jordyn Aldryk Farrangur II) was an Ottonian automotive engineer. He is best known for his work for Svaartaron and his legacy of iconic designs and pupils who went on to fame in their own right.
Career
Farrangur started his career as a mechanic in the Federal Army, where his talent for field repairs and improvised vehicles caught the attention of superiors. He rose to direct the motorpool of the Home Guard of Dunnmaar during the Great Ottonian War between 1935 and 1942. In 1943, following his discharge, Farrangur was hired by the automotive division of Svaartaron as a mechanical consultant on a new project to simpify and shrink the Svaartaron Ute, a project which would result in the creation of the iconic L-Ute.
Farrangur worked in the SAW draftroom from 1945 until his retirement in 2005, a career spanning 60 years. By the time he retired, the company's design philosophy was largely Farrangur's own, and its design and engineering departments were filled with his one-time students and proteges. While Farrangur did not set the original path, the continued reputation of Svaartaron vehicles for mechanical simplicity and reliability was attributable in large part to his influence.
While Farrangur never stopped working on refreshes and updates to older mainline Svaartaron designs, increasingly his passion and work turned towards Svaartaron's racing ventures. Farrangur would recieve permission to form the Svaartaron Racing Workshop in 1958, which would be renamed in 2005 upon his retirement in his honor. Farrangur would form a fierce, but mostly-friendly rivalry with Jormundkaar's former president turned racing design chief Theodur Eriksunn, and the two workshops would dominate the North Ottonian rally circuit in the 1960's and early 1970's. The rivalry would have further fuel added to it in 1963 when Eriksunn's second child, Nomi Eriksunn, would join Farrangur's staff as an assistant and protege.
With the help of the younger Eriksunn, in the early 2000's Farrangur oversaw the refresh of the L-Ute's design, which he called "[his] last piece of unfinished business" before retiring.
He retired in 2005 at the age of 95, although by that point his workload had dramatically diminished and his work was largely as an elder statesman and guide to younger staff. Farrangur was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2008, and he succumbed to the illness four months later.
Personal Life
Farrangur was born in 1910 in Corvik to Jordyn Farrangur and Maryan Storen, the second of three children. Farrangur's elder sister, Gretta, was killed in 1936 during the Great Ottonian War. He remained close with his younger sister, Jana (who died in 2012) until his own death in 2009.
In 1932, Farrangur enlisted in the Federal Army. It was there that he met Alfryd Kynyk, an ambulance driver. The two grew close quickly, and in 1933, Kynyk asked Farrangur to marry him. The two wed in 1934, just before the outbreak of the war.
In 1943, with the war finally over, Farrangur and Kynyk attempted to settle down (although this was made more difficult by the down economy prompted by postwar devastation). The two adopted a pair of war orphans, naming the elder, a boy, Jordyn, and the younger, a girl, Rona.
Kynyk passed away in 1997 at the age of 88, and Farrangur never remarried. When Farrangur passed away in 2009, the men were survived by their children, as well as five grandchildren (Jordyn's three, and Rona's two) as well as 8 great-grandchildren.