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Ben Stephens

United Kingdom
167 Posts

Posted - 01/08/2018 :  11:31:09  Show Profile
Hello All,

This is a long shot I know, but does anyone have any details of the second car in. I can't read the number plate.

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/the-start-of-the-jcc-high-speed-trial-at-brooklands-news-photo/637471910#the-start-of-the-jcc-high-speed-trial-at-brooklands-picture-id637471910

Many thanks

Ben

Brian Kelly

USA
526 Posts

Posted - 02/08/2018 :  18:08:49  Show Profile


Could it be a P-Type driven by Doreen Evans and one of her brothers? They use to wear white attire as shown in the photo.

For example;





Brian.
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Brian Kelly

USA
526 Posts

Posted - 02/08/2018 :  20:26:40  Show Profile
Correction:

Doreen Evans' car was an L-Type.

Motor Sport Mag. Page 20, September 1934

https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/september-1934/20/motor-sport

" The first race was scheduled for one o'clock, and attracted an entry of fourteen cars. A. C. Dobson's Bugatti, acquired from Charles Brackenbury, was the only non-starter. At the end of the first lap some idea of the chances of various competitors could be gauged, and the most casual observer could see that the race was .a good thing for A. Ashton-Rigby an his extremely fast L type M.G. Magna. As the cars traversed the bumps and hollows of the Members' Banking at the end of the first lap, G. L. Green (M.G. Midget) was actually in the lead, followed by S. R. Mitchell (Marendaz Special) and W. E. Humphreys (Alvis), but Ashton-Rigby was bearing down on this trio at great speed. Behind the Magna came Miss P. Naismith (Salmson). C. T. Delaney (Lea-Francis), A. PowysLybbe (Alvis), Miss Doreen Evans (M.G. Magna), R. F. Oats (Amilcar), and the scratch man, A. G. Bainton (Bainton special). Miss Evans had run a bearing on her Magna., and Oats was in trouble."

Brian.
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Ray Masters

United Kingdom
563 Posts

Posted - 02/08/2018 :  20:43:51  Show Profile
Looks like a P type to me Brian . Upright radiator, curved door , short bonnet.
The MG behind looks L type. Could be wrong , of course ...... has been known !.
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KevinA

New Zealand
668 Posts

Posted - 02/08/2018 :  23:31:48  Show Profile




I'm pretty sure we are looking at the High Speed Trial class B here, that is Patricia Oxenden's Alta in the foreground. The August caption on the photo is, I believe, wrong.

Edited by - KevinA on 02/08/2018 23:57:02
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KevinA

New Zealand
668 Posts

Posted - 03/08/2018 :  00:03:42  Show Profile


Class B (760 c.c. to 1,100 c.c.) : Special Awards (maximum time, 60 mins. '24 sees.).—Mrs. P. Oxenden (Alta), 57 mins. 26 secs. ; C. E. Taylor (Alta), 57 mins. 27 sees.; J. A. Driskell (B.N.C. S), 60 mins. 21 sees.; M. W. Sheppard (M.G.), 58 mins. 25 secs. ; Miss D. B. Evans (M.G.), 55 mins. 13 sees.; E. N. Ward (Riley), 57 thins. ; Miss P. D. Goodban (Singer),

59 mins. 42 sees.; R. J. W. Appleton (Singer), 58 mins. 28 secs. ; A. C. Westwood (Singer), 58 mins. 10 secs. ; Miss Joan Richmond (Triumph), 59 mins.

23 secs. Standard Awards (inaximtun time, 66 lIkillS.

24 secs.)—A. P. 0. Rogers (M.G.), 63 mins. 53 sees.; P. H. Lim (M.G.), 61 mins. 33 sees.; M. H. Sprague (M.G.), 61 mins. 34 sees.; W. B. Bryan (Sahnson), 63 mins. 43 secs. ; Miss H. A. Jackson (Singer), 66 mins. 17 sees.; A. C. Kelway (Singer), 63 mins. 44 se. ; F. Shepherd (Singer), 62 nuns. 26 sees.; J. Rennick (Singer), 60 mins. 56 sees.; Gordon Hendey (Singer), 61 mins. 31 secs.


Edited by - KevinA on 03/08/2018 00:14:05
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Brian Kelly

USA
526 Posts

Posted - 03/08/2018 :  17:24:53  Show Profile

Yes, Ray, you are correct.

More confusing by the minute.

Brian.
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farley1

Canada
152 Posts

Posted - 04/08/2018 :  16:00:41  Show Profile
Ben,
Maybe this photo will be of interest...
http://austinharris.co.uk/photo/cars-lined-up-at-1935-jcc-members-day/121
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KevinA

New Zealand
668 Posts

Posted - 05/08/2018 :  06:35:14  Show Profile
Hi Ian

don't get too confused here- the latest picture is the wrong year
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