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[Bloggsworth]

Fulminations were expected and none appeared, surprising in view of The Mail on Sunday's assertion that Stirling Moss was helped to victory by a certain Dennis Jackson...

[paulhooft]

No, it was in fact Michael Jackson, and his father was a Shoemaker from Germany..

Fulminations were expected and none appeared, surprising in view of The Mail on Sunday's assertion that Stirling Moss was helped to victory by a certain Dennis Jackson...

[Barry Boor]

Oh dear; it makes you want to cry, doesn't it?

[f1steveuk]

Sadly, for the Mail, pretty standard level of research/proof reading. I wonder how his daughter Glenda feels about it.

[arttidesco]

The Daily Mail must be a Thriller to read

[Vitesse2]

Perhaps it's a welcome indication that very few TNFers read the Daily Heil ...

[Hun200kmh]

I'm not British so I've got no access to that newspaper. In any case, there's no denying that Moss was indeed helped to victory by a certain Denis Jenkinson. (probably Dennis Jackson is the current pronunciation of the name, not sure ... )

[D-Type]

Was the article by Jonathan McEvoy? Or has he been replaced by someone equally incompetent at research?

[Geoff E]

Here's the article http://www.dailymail...-If-buy-it.html

[D-Type]

Here's the caption under a picture of the Uhlenhaut Coupe:

In 1953 Mercedes-Benz developed the 300 SLR race car for Grand Prix racing - in 1955 it captured the world championship. Meanwhile, the chief engineer built the Uhlenhaut Coupe, left, for his daily use. With a top speed of 180mph, just two were made

In true McEvoy spirit there's three errors of fact in the first sentence. At least the picture was a 300SLR coupe

[larryd]

Here's the article http://www.dailymail...-If-buy-it.html

"By a live reporter" it says.

[JoBo]

"By a live reporter" it says.

And what has Rene Staud to do with the period image of Moss and Mr. "Jackson" driving in the `55 MM???

tzzzzzz.....

JoBo

Edited by JoBo, 11 April 2012 - 21:28.

[twotempi]

Do they have "dead reporters" on their staff as well ?? And how do you tell the difference ??

[cpbell]

Do they have "dead reporters" on their staff as well ?? And how do you tell the difference ??

At a guess, they make fewer factual mistakes in their articles...

[RogerFrench]

The reporter's name is bassackward - it's Evil Reporter surely?

[Allan Lupton]

It says The Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Book, by Rene Staud and Jurgen Lewandowski, is published by teNeues, priced £85, teneues.com
so perhaps the howlers are from that book.
Do we know of the authors?

[Ray Bell]

One would certainly hope that cannot be true!

A newspaper, which disappears with the mist, is one problem. A book specific to a subject is quite another thing...

[JoBo]

It says The Mercedes-Benz 300 SL Book, by Rene Staud and Jurgen Lewandowski, is published by teNeues, priced £85, teneues.com
so perhaps the howlers are from that book.
Do we know of the authors?

Staud is a well known photographer and Lewandowski a journalist with a lot of knowledge about the automotive history. He wrote several very good books. Both chaps are from Germany.
They would never use the period photo of Moss/Jenks in the SLR without permission or credits.

But the credits this neswpaper gave is wong!

JoBo

[Stephen W]

No, it was in fact Michael Jackson, and his father was a Shoemaker from Germany..

Sadly, for the Mail, pretty standard level of research/proof reading. I wonder how his daughter Glenda feels about it.

The Daily Mail must be a Thriller to read

Humour is a very apt response to this blatant rewriting of History by the August chronicle the Daly Male!

I suspect that the journalist involved is still alive and never ventures out of the house due to having read all the scary stories printed in the newspaper he contributes to and believed them all.

We could bombard the Daily Mail with letters of complaint but they would probably report that they had had many letters of support so best ignore them and as an off the wall suggestion stop buying the rag!

[D-Type]

Their bylines often include the e-mail address of the correspondent. On occasions I have felt that a historical inaccuracy is serious enough to be misleading and have e-mailed the correspondent. I have never even received an acknowledgement.

"Who cares about accuracy so long as it sells papers " appears to be the basic attitude.

[David Beard]

Fulminations were expected and none appeared, surprising in view of The Mail on Sunday's assertion that Stirling Moss was helped to victory by a certain Dennis Jackson...

Perhaps they meant Arthur. He could have hired out one of his sheds as a Mercedes workshop?

[Barry Boor]

At the present time, a certain P. Connew has a beard that would out-Jenks Jenks. He wonders if he should announce himself as THE Dennis Jackson who sat in the Mercedes #722.

[Doug Nye]

He is - or was - too tall.

DCN

[Barry Boor]

Who, Dennis Jackson?

[Gary Davies]

Ah, I see 'Blood Pressure' has been reborn.

[Vitesse2]