Charles Brackenbury

I m looking more info on this driver involved with Aston Martin but what did he before

Robert

In 1929 Brackenbury was running a BNC in Brooklands handicaps. The next year he acquired a red Bugatti T37, which he campaigned for about three years before switching to an MG Midget in 1933. During the 1934 season he seems to have scaled back his racing, operating more or less as a professional co-driver in longer races. He partnered Jack Bartlett in an Alfa in the 1934 Empire Trophy, Charlie Martin in Martin's Alfa Romeo at Donington in 1936 and in the 1937 Campbell Trophy and co-drove Anthony Powys-Lybbe's V12 Sunbeam in the 1937 '500'. As late as 1939 he can be found sharing Ansell's ERA in the International Trophy. Boddy also records him driving in Brooklands handicaps in 1938-9 and as owner of a 3 litre Delage driven by Peter Aitken.

He was also (with Tim Rose-Richards and Johnny Hindmarsh) one of the team of four which set up a new 24-hour record at Bonneville in John Cobb's Napier-Railton on September 12th 1936.

Richard

Many Thanks

Robert

The following can be added to Vitesse’s list:

1930
raced the T37 at Skegness

1933
raced Shuttleworth’s 2.3 Bugatti in the Mannin Moar and a Bentley Speed Six at Mont Ventoux

1934
raced a Riley "MPH" in the Tourist Trophy

1935
raced Martin's 2.3 Bugatti at Brooklands and IoM

1936
raced works 2-litre Riley in the International Trophy and a Bugatti T51 at Southport and other sand-racing venues

1937
raced Martin’s P3 Alfa Romeo in the Empire Trophy, Rayson's 4CM Maserati in the Coronation Trophy at Crystal Palace, a Lagonda at Le Mans and in the TT, a Riley in the Donington Park 12hr race, Eccles's 2.3 Bugatti at Southport and an ERA in the 200 Miles Race at Donington Park

1939
raced Ansell's ERA in the Empire Trophy at Donington and a Lagonda at Le Mans

His Aston Martin record at Le Mans, which VDP presumably knows about, was third overall in 1935, retired in 1949 and sixth overall in 1950. He was also second in class in the 1935 TT and third overall in the 1949 Spa 24hrs.

I thought we didn't call them P3s any more

I always have and always will - in informal contexts anyway
That's what they everyone called them until the relatively recent intervention of pedantry
And, anyway, it's a lot easier to write 'P3' than Tipo B Monoposto

I always have and always will - in informal contexts anyway
That's what they everyone called them until the relatively recent intervention of pedantry
And, anyway, it's a lot easier to write 'P3' than [I]Tipo B Monoposto[?I]

Originally posted by David McKinney
1930
raced the T37 at Skegness

Racing at Skeggy? Obviously not a hillclimb! On the beach?

Ay, on the sands

A very long shot..but could this be the same Charles Brackenbury?

http://www.cecilia-u.../GetRecord/1146

Where did our Charles come from?

Full name according to his Times obituary was Charles Edgar Mills Brackenbury, Leif Snellman's site shows he was born in Lincolnshire, lived in Woking.