“Duncan Hamilton invites you to race at Oulton Park. Bell’s new exciting ‘drive yourself’ racing game for two players or teams” Well worth the £8 I paid for the box lid artwork alone - Duncan and a Vanwall followed by two Maserati 250Fs.
The game uses two side by side layouts of Oulton Park with two cars which look like a D-type Jaguar and a front engined GP car. Each player has a steering wheel at the base which can be slid up and across. These move a scissors arrangement under the board which terminate with a magnet. Movement of the magnets draw the cars around the circuit. The progress of the cars is made more difficult by pieces of model hedging, sandbags, banking, fences and bridges which line the circuit layouts. Alas, one of the "steering mechanisms" is missing, but I have managed to make one side of the game operable.
The makers, Bell (Toys and Games) Ltd of London are better known for late 1950s TV based board games - I found the following listed - “Interpol Calling”; “Gun Law”; Emergency Ward 10”; “Wagon Train” “Take your pick with Michael Miles”. This Duncan Hamilton game seems to be one of the harder to find. None are currently listed for sale on the 'net.
Does anyone else have this game? If so, was there an instruction leaflet?
Tony
Edited by taylov, 09 May 2009 - 13:28.
