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[Barry Boor]

Typical! As soon as I cancel my subs, up comes an article I wouldnt want to miss!

RATS....

(Apologies for missing apostrophe... I am in Malta, using an Italian keyboard and I cannot find the flippin thing...)

[T J C]

Hi folks, I am pleased to report that jackie is alive and well and lives in cainscross, stroud glos.
He was my employer at H&L motors for a couple of years back in the 90's. I have been overseas for 15 years but I am pretty sure that he still owns H&L trading estate, you could try there or just post to Jack lewis cainscross, stroud, Glos, England. ps go to the bbc web site and there is a radio interview done by him about his highs and lows as a driver.

[KJJ]

Originally posted by T J C
ps go to the bbc web site and there is a radio interview done by him about his highs and lows as a driver.

Here's the link .

[Bjorn Kjer]

Please read post 49 ! Any pictures of his transporter ??

[Bjorn Kjer]

Any news on Jack Lewis ? Any pictures to show or e-mail ?

Anyone know whart the H in H&L Motors stand for ?

[Bjorn Kjer]

Please anyone , explain the H&L Motors / Jack Lewis /Ecurie Galloise to me ? . I do know Jack was son of the L in H&L and he took the H&L transporter for his 1962 year with the Galloise name and "Dragon"

Edited by Bjorn Kjer, 20 March 2012 - 09:58.

[David McKinney]

Ecurie Galloise simply means 'Welsh stable' and was used in his BRM period (I think only)

[Bjorn Kjer]

JL raced under H&L untill 62 when he did his own Galloise for both BRM and Cooper cars.(According to Thomson and the Black men). But what about "H" in H&L motors ? It has been mentioned on the TNF I believe but I did not find it .


Motor Sport had an article on Jack Lewis in November 2007. Will someone who has that please scan it to me ?

Edited by Bjorn Kjer, 20 March 2012 - 10:14.

[f3promo]

Please allow me to revive an old post.

Winner of the Autocar F2 title in 1960, Jack Lewis was a most promising private entrant in 1961, when he was said to have captured Enzo Ferrari's attention on his first world championship outing at Spa, then at Monza, where he finished 4th in that tragic race which had cost several lives, among whom Wolfgang von Trips.

Whereas Phil Hill had been keen to see him join the Scuderia, there had been some controversy about a possible works drive at Cooper's, after Jack Brabham's departure. Had it not been for Bruce McLaren's reluctance, he told me he would have accepted the offer... Then came the set-back of the older BRM P48/57 engine problem...

Personally, my first encounter with Jack Lewis was at the GP de Bruxelles in April 1960 (when I had a high time as a Team Lotus' guest, right in the feet of Colin Chapman, Innes Ireland, Alan Stacey, Jim Clark and John Surtees). And then at Chimay in June 1960, where he won, ahead of Lucien Bianchi and Ron Flockhart (link to the picture I made then, where the very special exhaust on his Cooper T45 is noticeable: https://www.flickr.c...157604186094686).

I had a chance of a talk with him again when he was back in Stroud, in the year 2000.

Jack had no regrets for having made a fundamental choice to quit racing as a talented privateer, in an era that was later refered to as 'the killing years'.

Edited by f3promo, 24 June 2014 - 08:27.

[JimClen]

Whilst househunting in Stroud earlier this year (around May 2015), we met Jack, who was selling a property on the former site of his family's industrial estate in Ebley. We have had several enjoyable chats about his racing days and other things. He is a very convincing advertisement for the benefits of teetotalism - pin-sharp and spry at the age of 79. You can always tell when Jack is coming down our road - he's removed the silencers from his V8 Jeep...

 

My wife is a motorsport artist and Jack kindly agreed to sit for her. Here is a link to her painting (can't post image for some reason):

 

http://i6.photobucke...zpsmqajtgay.jpg

Edited by JimClen, 15 December 2015 - 14:13.

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[Cirrus]

That's a lovely portrait JimClan. Is there a link to more of your wife's work?

 

Ecurie Galloise simply means 'Welsh stable' and was used in his BRM period (I think only)

 

It's at times like these when I realise how much we miss David...

Edited by Cirrus, 15 December 2015 - 19:40.

[JimClen]

Hi Cirrus - apologies for not replying sooner, life has a habit of being busier than one thinks!

 

My wife's motoring art can be seen here:

 

https://motorsportsa...dpress.com/buy/

 

She is a member of the Guild of Motoring Artists, but her art covers a wide range of subjects.