Would any fellow TNFers have any information on the Norwich rally driver Ted Cleghorn. His choice of mount was a Dellow registered ECL 787,and was well known in East Anglia. Ted only had one arm, but so soon after the war this would not have been that unusual and it did not seem to bother him that much!

When I can remember what to do I will post some pictures!

Had a rally named after him - the Ted Cleghorn Memorial Stages.

Just noticed, whilst looking for something else, that there was a Cleghorn/Wright entry in a Triumph Herald on the 1960 Monte Carlo Rally. No idea whether it's the same one.

It is possible that he entered the Monte Carlo Rally, I was talking to a chap yesterday who told me that Cleghorn rallied a Volvo 120 in the 60's..

I think you'll find that was one Alec (or Alex) Cleghorn - probably a near relation though, given that The Times (Jan 21 1959) says he was from Norwich. He and his co-driver Alec Newsham were hospitalized after crashing their Singer near Die on the 1959 Monte.

Alec/Alex Cleghorn retired from the 1965 Monte (The Times Jan 19 1965) and the 1967 Monte (The Times Jan 18 1967), both times in a Volvo.

Alex Cleghorn was a London starter on the 65 Monte in a Volvo, No.121 (the start number, not the Volvo model number...).

The driver of the Volvo 120 only had one arm, so I assume that was Ted!........ Unless of course; it was an hereditry problem!

I think I have sussed it, looking through the E.C.M.C Annual Review 1952/53 he is listed as A.E. Cleghorn. Presumably his second name was Edward, thus abbreviated to Ted!

Well, just to clarify, the 1959 Times report calls him Alec, the 1965 report gives merely the initial A and in 1967 they call him Alex.

He's down on the 65 Monte official entry list as Alex. Printing his first name when he was known by his second is common on major event entry lists, where many people will not be known to the organisers. In events in continental Europe there can be still further confusion even today because of the old habit of surname first/christian name second.
I had a look at RAC and Gulf London Rally entry lists around those years and the name doesn't seem to appear. That would be normal as, for UK competitors, the sport was by then splitting into "forest specialists" and "traditional rally". I would suggest 1967 was perhaps the last year large numbers of traditional UK amateur competitors did the Monte. He doesn't appear in the 67 Tulip Rally list of UK competitors that was posted on here a few months ago.

After starting this thread I had a letter in the Eastern Daily Press ; which is printed in Norwich, and through it I discovered the following….

Ted Cleghorn lost his right arm in a lorry accident before the war, and at the same time he lost the use of his left eye!

He married ‘Mibb’s’ in 1952 and shortly after they started rallying together in a Dellow, she navigated in most events although sometimes Kenneth ‘Rusty’ Palmer would stand in for her!

During July 1955 Ted was part of a team that took the Class E 24 Hour Record, using a Morgan at Snetterton. The other members were ‘Gentleman’ Jack Sears, circuit manager Oliver Sear and local reporter Dennis Allen, the team was over seen by Doctor Ian Pearce.

From the Morgan he went to a Singer Gazelle, Triumph Herald and Volvo 120. Mibb’s never went with him on the Monte Carlo, and Ted was not driving when the accident happened in France

Alexander Edward 'Ted' Cleghorn died in 1974 aged 67.

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