MANTA DESIGN - Key Persons
Jonathan Catling (Jon), is an engineer, builder, project manager, and sculptor. He was busy avoiding car ownership in Cambridge, where he was born. He always loved the freedom of cycling, and expanded into motorcycles. Cycles, mainly, were perfect for Cambridge life (pubs, river), flexible, cheap, good fun, supremely efficient for the city, and beyond.
Jon contacted BBC Tomorrow's World, who had an open innovations programme, he was advised not to go public with a design, they saw it as having commercial potential. It was suggested, a patent must be applied for.