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!
Ted Cleghorn - one-armed Dellow exponent
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Leigh Trevail
, Nov 04 2008 17:41
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Posted 04 November 2008 - 19:34
Had a rally named after him - the Ted Cleghorn Memorial Stages.
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Posted 05 November 2008 - 20:55
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.
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Posted 06 November 2008 - 08:50
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..
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Posted 06 November 2008 - 12:35
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.
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.
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Posted 06 November 2008 - 14:17
Alex Cleghorn was a London starter on the 65 Monte in a Volvo, No.121 (the start number, not the Volvo model number...).
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Posted 06 November 2008 - 14:22
The driver of the Volvo 120 only had one arm, so I assume that was Ted!........ Unless of course; it was an hereditry problem!
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Posted 06 November 2008 - 14:32
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!
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Posted 06 November 2008 - 15:38
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.;)
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Posted 06 November 2008 - 20:32
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.
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.
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Posted 12 November 2008 - 17:52
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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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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Posted 12 May 2013 - 06:40
Ted's career started before WW2; in 1933 he had an M.G. Magna that he drove to a 2nd Class award on the Colmore Trial in the Midlands, a
Premier award on the Lands End Trial and a Silver Award on the London to Exeter trial.
Source: www.sccon.co.uk/spotlight/201208.pdf
Premier award on the Lands End Trial and a Silver Award on the London to Exeter trial.
Source: www.sccon.co.uk/spotlight/201208.pdf
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Posted 12 May 2013 - 10:29
If someone has access to GenesReunited.co.uk he might give us exact dates of Ted Cleghorn’s
birth
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death.
The person who registered his death in June 1974 in Eastbourne said AEC was born 2 July 1907. This is compatible with the birth registration of an AEC in Derby in the 3rd quarter of 1907.
EDIT: Married 1936 in Norfolk.
Edited by Geoff E, 12 May 2013 - 10:30.
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Posted 12 May 2013 - 19:18
Whilst we are talking about Ted, he entered the 1961 Monte Carlo Rally as number 339 driving a Triumph Herald reg. no. 2510 NG, his co-driver was Tim Healey. He also entered the rally in 1962; possibly in the same car, it may have been entered as number 94.
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Posted 12 May 2013 - 19:50
Whilst we are talking about Ted, he entered the 1961 Monte Carlo Rally as number 339 driving a Triumph Herald reg. no. 2510 NG, his co-driver was Tim Healey. He also entered the rally in 1962; possibly in the same car, it may have been entered as number 94.
Yes, 94. Glasgow starter, co-driver Wright. Triumph 1147cc.
