You may recall that my quest for information is in connection with some very interesting footage that my colleagues in the MG Car Club are working on with a view to making a commercially available DVD.
You'll find on this clip some footage from an unknown sprint meeting in a parkland setting. Can anyone help to identify the place and date please? What we can say is that it's probably early fifties and may be an MGCC event.
We have identified two of the cars and drivers:
KTU 343 is the "Rojah" special (ex Alan Rogers) driven here by Major Arnold Pownall. He was later the MGCC team manager at Le Mans in 1959 to 61.
DRJ 600 is the Allard M type of Reg Holt, well known rally driver from Cheshire.
Also can anyone identify the type of timing equipment in use and how it works? We know that driving over the "hockey stick" at the start sets the stop watch running, but what happens at the finish? Does the car cut the wire?
Thanks in anticipation of some more information and insight from the vast font of knowledge that is TNF!!
Rob
Edited by Kingsleyrob, 01 February 2011 - 13:56.