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[Marc Ceulemans]

Thanks

But dutch from NETHERLAND or from GERMANY ?

NL

Yves Deprez is Belgian.

See also my reply in Autodiva

[Haine Kane]

Thanks Marc.

[raceannouncer2003]

CANADA

BIENVENUE Jacques
CARTER Maurice
DEACON David
EDWARDS Murray
PETERS Rob
ROWE Douglas
VALENTINE Dick

GUATEMALA

JUHAN Jaroslav

Here is a link to an obituary of Maurice Carter. It looks from this that he was born in Wininipeg, Manitoba, Canada around 1921:

http://www.obituarie...ituary_ID=27190

As for Jaroslav Juhan, here is a link to another thread, which may be helpful:

http://forums.autosp...w...66&hl=Juhan

I wrote Juhan a couple of years ago for his autograph, and he mailed it from his home in Geneve.

Vince H.

[Jean L]

I am not sure but from memory it is Max Antichan,not Marc.
Gr1/Production driver 70s/80s.

[Haine Kane]

Thanks for Maurice CARTER

[ReWind]

Recently departed Frenchman Christian Avril was born on 14 November 1932. (Source)

[a_tifoosi]

ESPAGNE / SPAIN

CHIRIBIGA
de SEGOVIA Jules
de ZUNIGA Manso
JUNCADELLA Xavier
LEOZ-ABAD Genaro
PEREZ
PUIG Xavier
REH CARDONA Pablo

Sorry, I don't have complete answers for all the spanish drivers; but, at least, I have incomplete information about some of them:

- Jules de Segovia: the complete name is Julio Segovia Wefine, born in San Sebastián.
- Manso de Zuniga: the correct (and complete) name is Rafael Manso de Zúñiga.
- Genaro Léoz-Abad (and his brother Enaro Léoz-Abad), born in a village known as Cirauqui, in Navarra.
- Javier (or Xavier) Juncadella Salisachs: born in Barcelona, 15-01-1947.
- Pablo Reh Cardona: Pablo or Julio? Julio was born in Madrid.
- There are thousands of Pérez in Spain. Any detail?

Kind regards,
Narcís.

[Haine Kane]

Sorry, I don't have complete answers for all the spanish drivers; but, at least, I have incomplete information about some of them:

- Jules de Segovia: the complete name is Julio Segovia Wefine, born in San Sebastián.
- Manso de Zuniga: the correct (and complete) name is Rafael Manso de Zúñiga.
- Genaro Léoz-Abad (and his brother Enaro Léoz-Abad), born in a village known as Cirauqui, in Navarra.
- Javier (or Xavier) Juncadella Salisachs: born in Barcelona, 15-01-1947.
- Pablo Reh Cardona: Pablo or Julio? Julio was born in Madrid.
- There are thousands of Pérez in Spain. Any detail?

Kind regards,
Narcís.

Thanks (with late )

[ReWind]

Although not figuring in Haine Kane's lists something about Lawrence Mitchell, participant of the 1953 race, hopefully should be useful to someone.

According to this BRDC Bulletin he died in 2009.
No exact date is given. Maybe some TNFer can help.

In the obituary the year of his birth is given as 1923. According to my notes he was born on 19 July 1921, though.

Small hint for further research: His full name was Henry Arthur Lawrence Vernon Mitchell.

[ReWind]

I just learned that Canadian Greg Wilkins, Le Mans class winner in 2000, died more than a year ago on 16 December 2009. At the early age of 53 he succumbed to brain cancer. (Source)

[ReWind]

From this source I learned that one of the Bob Johnsons who raced at Le Mans died two and a half years ago on 16 October 2008.

The owner of Johnson's Industrial Caterers ... he was a National Champion Race Car Driver and a member of the Carroll Shelby Ford Racing Team, Sports Car Club of America, Shelby American Automobile Club.

According to the SSDI Robert Lyle Johnson of Columbus, Ohio, was born on 19 February 1927.
Details of his career are available here (although I’m afraid his later races got mixed up with those of R.D. “Marietta Bob” Johnson).

[ReWind]

Rodney Frederick Peacock (who was called "Roy") died on 26 May 2011 at the age of 92.

[Nanni Dietrich]

ITALIE / ITALY

ANSELMI Enrico
BAGGIO (Comte) Innocente
BALZARINI Gianni
BONOMELLI Eugenio
BONONI Bruno
BOTTO Mario
CAMMAROTA Raffaele
CANAVESI Carlo
CATTINI Remo
COFFANI Vincenzo
CORNACCHIA Franco
DAMONTE Mario
DANIELI Mario
DANIELI Tino
de LEONIBUS Paolo
GASPARETTI Franco
GIANROSSI Paolo
GIARDINI Francesco
GIUDICCI Paolo
GUATTA Angelo
ILOTTE Mario
IPPOCAMPO" Umberto CASTIGLIONI
KIM" Sergio PEDRETTI
LOCATELLI Ugo
MACCHIERALDO Adolfo
MARTINO Massimo
MELGRATI Ruggero
MICANGELI Maurizio ou Marco
NADDEO Giancarlo
NAVONE Giuseppe
NAZZARO Carlo
PALMIERI Pietro
PAM" Marsilio PASOTTI
PASOLINI Enrico
PAVIA Domenico
PICA Pino
PIETROMARCHI Carlo
PINTO Enrico
POOKY
PROVOLO
QUERZOLA Athos
RADICELLA Mario
RAMPONI Giulio
RICCI Ricciardo
RIGAMONTI Giancarlo
ROSSI Romolo
RUBBIETTI Giorgio
SALA Giancarlo
SALVODI Mirco
SCORBATI Roberto
SEVERI Martino
SIRACUSA Francesco
STAGNOLI Antonio
TOMASI Carlo
TRUFFO Dulio
UBEZZI Georges
VENEZIAN Bruno
VESPRINI Tulio
WILLERS" Germano PRENOL
ZANARDI Marino
ZANETTI Maurizio
ZUCCOLI Carlo

Enrico PINTO, date of birth 1939, Como, Italy.
Giancarlo NADDEO, place of birth: Rome, Italy, yera... 1939? (not sure).


ENNIO (not Eugenio) Bonomelli
http://www.motorspor...f...db=ct&n=206

"PAM" (Marsilio Pasotti)
http://www.motorspor...f...db=ct&n=400

"POOKY" (Vincenzo CAZZAGO)
http://www.motorspor...f...db=ct&n=519

STAGNOLI Antonio
http://www.motorspor...php?db=ct&n=967

Corrections:
NO Gianrossi but GIANGROSSI Paolo
NO Salvodi but SAVOLDI Mirko (place of birth: Brescia, Italy)
NO Giudicci Paolo but GIUDICI Gianni

[ReWind]

Giancarlo NADDEO, place of birth: Rome, Italy, yera... 1939? (not sure).

According to a posting in this Italian forum he was born on 21 May 1945 in Rome.

[ReWind]

Robert Hichens (Robert Peverell Hichens, NOT Hitchens) b. 02 March 1909 d. 13 April 1943
Jaroslav Juhan (Jaroslav Vaclav Maria Juhan) b. 13 October 1921 d. 28 September 2011
Roger Labric (Roger Jean Labric) b. 19 February 1893 d. 24 May 1962
Jean Brussin aka „Mary“ b. 15 January 1924 d. 21 June 1958 (Is anyone able to decipher the place of birth?)

[r.atlos]

La Frette, Dépt. Isère.

[ReWind]

Merci!

[ReWind]

George Curtis Rand (b. 14 October 1909, d. 05 October 1986) who took part in the 1951 race was a major figure in American motorsport. I started a thread about him in the Historical Research subforum. Click here

[ReWind]

From this source I learned that one of the Bob Johnsons who raced at Le Mans died two and a half years ago on 16 October 2008.

And now "Marietta Bob" Johnson has also passed away. (Source)
Amazingly this Bob Johnson was born on 7 March 1927, just 16 days after "Columbus Bob".

[cheesy poofs]

Hello,

I'm come back with news lists of researchs
I just write the names of drivers without informations about birth date and place, and if you have any informations about them, I take.
For the drivers you can't find in these lists, I've got all the informations about them

Thanks a lot for your helping.



CANADA

BIENVENUE Jacques ------ Born 2 May 1938

Edited by cheesy poofs, 23 May 2012 - 01:04.

[ReWind]

In a French forum TNFer HaineKane recently gave Joan Riddell’s life dates as follows:
RIDDELL Joan Hardwick (Mrs Lack) Great Britain / Wales b. 16/04/1912 ** Cardiff (Glamorgan / GB) d. /07/1997 Croydon (Surrey / GB) 85 years old
 
Some time ago it was however suggested that „Joan“ Riddell was in fact „Enid“ Riddell (1903 – 1980). For instance look here:

In 1937 Dorothy Stanley Turner and Joan Riddell finished 16th at Le Mans driving Captain Eyston's little MG Midget. A notable achievement which saw them finish second in the Rudge Whitworth Biennial Cup section of the race. At least that is what nearly every Motor Sport site on the web says. Dig a little deeper and a different name for Stanley-Turner's co-driver comes to light - Enid Riddell.
 
Now Enid Riddell is a much more interesting character than the fictitious Joan. A member of Captain Ramsay's pro-German Right Club, she was interned in Holloway prison during the war. Like MI5's Director of Transport, the Earl of Cottenham, another motor racing figure, Riddell was a close friend of the Nazi spy Anna Wolkoff. After the war Enid moved to Malaga where she owned a club with the racing name 'La Rascasse', she pops up in April Ashley's memoirs smuggling whiskey. In 1973 Anna Wolkoff, the daughter of a Tsarist admiral, was killed in a car crash in Spain, a car driven by her old friend Miss Riddell. Enid seemingly returned to London, where she died in 1980 aged 76.

 
Maybe it is time to kick off a new effort to clear this up.

[ReWind]

Come on, there must be someone who knows more.
 
I can tell you her full name was Enid Mary Riddell. Has anyone access to the National Archives?

[Jim Thurman]

USA

In blue the changes with yours answers


ERICKSON Ernie Ray b-15 apr 1918 d-28 nov 2002

HARMON Bob b-18sep 1932 d-30 may 2002
 

 

I've yet to see if these have been corrected, but these aren't the right people.

Ernie Erickson and Ray Erickson were two different people.  Ernie was a Midwest sports car racer while Ray a track roadster and early NASCAR racer.

 

...and the dates you have are for a Bob Harmon, but not the Bob Harmon that raced at LeMans.  The dates are for U.S. short track racing promoter Bob Harmon (All Pro), father of U.S. stock car racer Mike Harmon.

[Vitesse2]

Reinhard, I have no idea where this 'Joan Riddell' stuff came from. All the indications are that Enid Riddell was the racer - my best guess would be that at some point someone confused her with Joan Richmond. Enid was a friend of Betty Haig, competed in a number of rallies - including the 1939 Paris-St Raphael, in which she finished sixth - and was also Betty's co-driver on the 1946 French Alpine Rally. She also ran regularly in the Monte and won the Coupe des Dames with Countess Moy in 1934. Competed at least once at La Turbie, so may actually have been based in France during the 1930s?

 

She was the daughter of an Indian-born army officer and a South African mother - birth registered in St Marylebone in London, March 23rd 1903, baptized June 5th 1903, St Mary's, Marylebone. At the time of the baptism her parents' address was given as the Clifton Hotel in Welbeck Street. Enid appears on the 1911 census as living with her grandmother and mother: it appears that her parents' marriage was already over, since her father - by now described as a stockbroker and single - appears elsewhere as a lodger in a boarding house in Westminster.

 

I can't trace a death for either of her parents, so presumably both died abroad.

 

The National Archives MI5 file is unlikely to tell us much, since it will be mainly concerned with her activities as a member of the Right Club, her connections to Wolkoff and Kent and observations of her while in Holloway. However, I know someone who may have a copy of the file ...

 

I suspect that the assumption that Joan H Riddell/Joan Lack is the person in question is based purely on the coincidental fact that she married one Gordon Iliffe Lack in Marylebone in 1938: from phone book and electoral roll records it appears he actually lived in Twickenham at the time and had recently moved there from Ealing. I can't trace any record of Joan Riddell in London at that time. From at least 1943, the Lacks lived in a two-bedroom flat in Croydon.

[Rainer Nyberg]

Not quite! In fact his given name is Dirk, full name Dirk Georges Evarist Maria Vermeersch, and because he also drove rallyes we know from RallyBase that he was born on 19 June 1952.

More info here: http://www.leplangt....p?pageID=01_005

[Tomas Karlsson]

THE "SMALL" COUNTRY

In blue the changes with yours answers


SWENDEN

ANDERSSON Ivor ou Yvor
AXELSSON Sten
BENGTSSON Gunnar
JANSSON Bernd born 16 mars 1931 Grodinge
LUNDGARTH Jan
NOTTROP Sture
WIDENGREN Hugh ou Per Victor
 

 

I suppose you mean SWEDEN...

 

Anderssons first name was Ivar . He was born Sep 16th 1922 in Bjuråker and died Mar 28th 2004 in Hudiksvall

Sten Axelsson  born in 1942 Jun 28th

Gunnar Bengtson (check spelling!) was born May 22nd 1914 in Göteborg and died July 30th 1996 in Stenungsund

Jan Lundgårdh (spelling!) born in 1941

Sture Nottorp (spelling again) born June 12th 1926 in Göteborg and died Apr 18th 1991 in Askim outside of Göteborg.

Henrik or "Henken" Widengren was born June 20th 1910 in Vingåker and died at the age of 79 in Spain. Per Viktor was his older brother.

[Rainer Nyberg]

Even though Lucio did most of his driving in Australia, I'm told when he raced at Le Mans in 1985 for Lancia he raced under the Italian flag (at least that was what was painted on the car). Will see if I can find a picture.

 

Yes, for sure an Italian flag at Le Mans in '85. Not sure about the reasons, as he was born in Australia. Maybe they just lacked an Australian flag sticker, but had plenty of Italian flags (Nannini, Baldi, Barilla, Ghinzani, Fabi, Alboreto)?

 

Birthyear for Lucio Cesario seems like 1951, even if this article about a 53-year-old Cesario in May 2013 should suggest 1960 or possible 1959?

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/north/ivanhoe-east-motor-racing-veteran-prepares-for-the-historic-winton/story-fnglenug-1226636666305

 

http://www.racingspo...esario-AUS.html claims 1931, THAT I don't believe at all!

 

[ReWind]

Birthyear for Lucio Cesario seems like 1951, even if this article about a 53-year-old Cesario in May 2013 should suggest 1960 or possible 1959?

It seems his father died in early 2012 (source: http://connection.eb...ale-gay-cesario).

Maybe someone has Australian Auto Action from 18 April 2012, issue 1487 (p.28), and can tell us whether or not his father's life dates are given which could give a hint to the son's age.

[Richard Jenkins]

I suppose you mean SWEDEN...

 

Anderssons first name was Ivar . He was born Sep 16th 1922 in Bjuråker and died Mar 28th 2004 in Hudiksvall

Sten Axelsson  born in 1942 Jun 28th

Gunnar Bengtson (check spelling!) was born May 22nd 1914 in Göteborg and died July 30th 1996 in Stenungsund

Jan Lundgårdh (spelling!) born in 1941

Sture Nottorp (spelling again) born June 12th 1926 in Göteborg and died Apr 18th 1991 in Askim outside of Göteborg.

Henrik or "Henken" Widengren was born June 20th 1910 in Vingåker and died at the age of 79 in Spain. Per Viktor was his older brother.

 

Tomas,

Do you have any ibiographical nformation - dates - places - on Gunnar Nordstrom, who raced in F2?

[Rainer Nyberg]

I suppose you mean SWEDEN...

 

Anderssons first name was Ivar . He was born Sep 16th 1922 in Bjuråker and died Mar 28th 2004 in Hudiksvall

Sten Axelsson  born in 1942 Jun 28th

Gunnar Bengtson (check spelling!) was born May 22nd 1914 in Göteborg and died July 30th 1996 in Stenungsund

Jan Lundgårdh (spelling!) born in 1941

Sture Nottorp (spelling again) born June 12th 1926 in Göteborg and died Apr 18th 1991 in Askim outside of Göteborg.

Henrik or "Henken" Widengren was born June 20th 1910 in Vingåker and died at the age of 79 in Spain. Per Viktor was his older brother.

 

Jan LUNDGÅRDH full birthdate is 15 november 1941.

[Rainer Nyberg]

Tomas,

Do you have any ibiographical nformation - dates - places - on Gunnar Nordstrom, who raced in F2?

 

As Gunnar Nordström raced for Umeå AK, there is one Gunnar Nordström living in Umeå that fits the bill.

25th May 1951.

 

Maybe Tomas can confirm or decline?

[Tomas Karlsson]

I don't know, but it sounds plausible. I'll see if I can find anything to confirm it.

[Tomas Karlsson]

As Gunnar Nordström raced for Umeå AK, there is one Gunnar Nordström living in Umeå that fits the bill.

25th May 1951.

 

Maybe Tomas can confirm or decline?

 

Sorry, wrong guy! Nordström seems to have been born in 1946.

 

[ReWind]

Mrs. H.H. Stisted competed in the 1931 race together with Joan Chetwynd. Obviously she was the wife of Henry Heathcote Stisted (1909 - 1962).
Her own name seems to appear nowhere. So maybe it is of interest that I think she was Angela Mary Moggridge (b. 02 September 1910 in Surrey, d. 1986 in London).
Strangely her marriage to Henry Stisted is said to have happened in 1932. If that is true then she would still have been Miss Moggridge instead of Mrs. Stisted at the time of the 1931 Le Mans race.
Can anyone shed light on this?

[ReWind]

Dr. André Colas,
b. 26 April 1902, d. 14 November 1964.
The source reveals a notable life story!

[Haine Kane]

Hello Friends,

 

I reactive this topic after a long time without informations about me

 

Recently I find a document sign by Thomas Stewart (or Steuart) FOTHRINGHAM without "E", he write himself FOTHRINGHAM and cross the "E" on this document.

I find this about him : http://scottisharchi...l.php?id=205790

 

For you, is it the same man ?

 

Thanks for you answer ;)

Jean-Charles aka "Haine Kane"