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[Geoff E]

Anyway, enough airfield anorak stuff, suffice to say that it's Staverton.

Great picture. Thanks!

[Rupertlt1]

Another picture, from Simon Lewis, at Staverton to identify:

 

https://shop.simonle...c1954-622-p.asp

 

Is the #76, Lotus VI, registration NDF 32, driven by H. W. Swanton?

 

Swanton drove the Lotus on the circuits in 1955, see:

 

https://library.revs...arch/"NDF 32"/1

 

Swanton also ran at the Daily Telegraph meeting at Brands Hatch, 1 August 1955.

 

https://www.racingsp...Swanton-GB.html

 

Another photograph of the car appears in Autosport, 1 July 1955, Page 828.

 

Maybe RAP can help?

 

RGDS RLT

Edited by Rupertlt1, 08 May 2021 - 18:15.

[cooper997]

Rupert, If we're thinking the same person this is Donald H Swanton - he's an Aussie. I don't have much transcribed for his UK events. But do have that Aug 55 Brands programme, where he's listed in a Lotus Ford and another Australian, Dick Cobden is also listed (as too some chap named Brabham). Don raced aircooled Cooper in Australia prior to the UK.

 

December 1958 AMS has a note in Spotlight that he was back in Oz after 2 1/2 years in Europe and now working for Lucas. But it must have been a bit longer than that. He arrived back with an ex Peter Ashdown Lotus XI.

 

 

Stephen