Hi,
Can anyone help please with my project, I would like to know who A. Oakes Richards was/is? I see him as a race entry at Great Auclum in 1951.
Thanks, Paul
Anyone heard of A. Oakes Richards
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Hse289
, Mar 30 2013 10:28
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Vitesse2
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Posted 30 March 2013 - 12:22
From some digging on Ancestry and 192.com, his first name appears to be Alfred. Was living in Birmingham in 1949, married in Stratford 1952. Various addresses in the Midlands thereafter: moved to Cornwall in the mid-70s. Probably died about 2005.
Appears to have still been competing in 1962: http://www.nhca.co.u.....pril 1962.pdf
See also page 5 here: http://www.nhca.co.u.....0May 1960.pdf
The December 1997 issue of Thoroughbred & Classic Car might be worth checking too: that apparently contains an article called "The TVRs of Anthony[?] Oakes-Richards: TVR's first distributor".
http://www.trademe.c...n-482548907.htm
Appears to have still been competing in 1962: http://www.nhca.co.u.....pril 1962.pdf
See also page 5 here: http://www.nhca.co.u.....0May 1960.pdf
The December 1997 issue of Thoroughbred & Classic Car might be worth checking too: that apparently contains an article called "The TVRs of Anthony[?] Oakes-Richards: TVR's first distributor".
http://www.trademe.c...n-482548907.htm
Edited by Vitesse2, 30 March 2013 - 12:35.
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Hse289
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Posted 30 March 2013 - 13:12
Thank you Vitesse2, that's a great start. I will follow all those leads up.
Paul
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Hse289
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Posted 01 April 2013 - 11:24
I wonder if he is the same person who started up the TVR car club? I have emailed them to find out.
