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[RA0259]

Hi All,

Looking for complete entrants list from this event in 1936.

Know that Tongue, Powys-Lybbe and Dobson were place getters. Curious abut other entrants.

Also car numbers if possible?

Thanks,

Chris

[Vitesse2]

1 Charlie Martin (Alfa Romeo Tipo B)
2 Austin Dobson (Alfa Romeo Tipo B)
3 Antony Powys-Lybbe (Alfa Romeo Monza)
4 Mervyn White (Bugatti) Crash
5 B Bira (ERA B) - DNF Supercharger
6 ?? DNA
7 'Jock' Manby-Colegrave (ERA B)
8 Reggie Tongue (ERA B)
9 ?? DNA
10 Teddy Rayson (Bugatti)
11 LR Briggs (MG)
12 Sir AW MacRobert (MG K3)
14 Douglas Briault (MG Midget)
15 Duke of Grafton (Squire) DNS
16 PM Dwyer (Bugatti)
17 Hugh McFerran (Bugatti)
18 Charlie Neill (Bugatti) DNS
19 Ivo Peters (Frazer Nash)
20 EWH Dobson (Riley)
21 DC MacLachlan (Riley)
22 Frank O'Boyle (Riley)
23 Billy Sullivan (Sullivan Spl)
24 Davey Yule (CMY) DNS
25 T O'Shaughnessy (Talbot)
26 Charlie Manders (Adler)
27 Walter Furey (MG)
28 F ffrench Davis (Fiat) DNS
29 J Toohey (Ford Spl)
30 J Carr (Austin)
31? Trevor McCalla (Sullivan Spl)

Result (on handicap) 24 starters

1 Tongue
2 Powys-Lybbe
3 Austin Dobson
4 Toohey
5 Peters
6 MacRobert
7 Manders
8 MacLachlan
McCalla - flagged, out of time

No other finishers

The above is gleaned from "The Cork Motor Races 1936-1938" by Wilford J Fitzsimmons (Dreoilin Specialist Publications 2000).

Edited by Vitesse2, 30 September 2009 - 21:35.

[Simon Thomas]

It can be seen Grafton non-started the Squire because he had bought the Bugatti T59 from Martin, we all know the result of this.
Chris, if you check the details I have already sent, Baird did not enter this race in your car.
Simon Thomas

[Vitesse2]

It can be seen Grafton non-started the Squire because he had bought the Bugatti T59 from Martin, we all know the result of this.

Err ... not quite! The Cork race was run on May 16th, but the duke met his maker at Limerick in August. I hadn't actually realised he'd entered at Cork until I looked this up: the received wisdom is that he'd never even entered a race before Limerick.

[Simon Thomas]

A very big ooops!!!! Senior moment.
Simon Thomas

[fuzzi]

Err ... not quite! The Cork race was run on May 16th, but the duke met his maker at Limerick in August. I hadn't actually realised he'd entered at Cork until I looked this up: the received wisdom is that he'd never even entered a race before Limerick.

He had run the Squire in a five-lap 1500cc handicap race at Donington Park on 9th May 1936. According to Bill Boddy in his Book of Donington he was "an interesting newcomer" in his "light two seater Squire". He may have been interesting, but he was unplaced in a field of eleven cars.

PS thanks for pointing out the book on the Cork Races. It is available, as are other Deoilin Publications from Read Ireland in Dublin - they have a website.

Edited by fuzzi, 02 October 2009 - 19:11.

[terry mcgrath]

14 Douglas Briault (MG Midget)

I had never heard the name Douglas Briault until a week ago when somone here in Australia sais they had seen a photo album/scrapbook of his "Dougie Briault" here in Australia.
Is anyone aware of Briault family being in OZ
terry

[Vitesse2]

14 Douglas Briault (MG Midget)

I had never heard the name Douglas Briault until a week ago when somone here in Australia sais they had seen a photo album/scrapbook of his "Dougie Briault" here in Australia.
Is anyone aware of Briault family being in OZ
terry

He apparently lived in Surfers Paradise, although he died in London:

http://forums.autosp...w...&hl=Briault

[charleymcguffin]

Film of the Cork race can be found at British Pathe news site....

http://www.britishpa...ord.php?id=6844

Also film for the 1937 and '38 races ..The pathe site also has footage from the Limerick races and from the Phoenix park races.

[Tim Murray]

I hadn't actually realised he'd entered at Cork until I looked this up: the received wisdom is that he'd never even entered a race before Limerick.

He had run the Squire in a five-lap 1500cc handicap race at Donington Park on 9th May 1936. According to Bill Boddy in his Book of Donington he was "an interesting newcomer" in his "light two seater Squire". He may have been interesting, but he was unplaced in a field of eleven cars.

He’s also listed as a DNF in the Nuffield Trophy at Donington on 4th July 1936. He completed 23 laps in the Squire but didn’t merit a mention from WB in his race report in the Donington book:

http://www.the-fastl...a2/V1936-10.htm

ETA: WB did record him driving a 2.3 Alfa Romeo in another handicap race at the May meeting at Donington.