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[Simon Hadfield]

Can anyone on here help me please? I am looking for references to a gentleman called George Dixon, living in 1962 in 3, Welbourne Gardens, Lincoln and who was the principal of the "Lincoln Racing Team" 

He was the previous owner of a Series Two Lotus 11 that was sold in 1962 to Renato Bertorelli and became his Lotus 11 GT. This transaction was handled by a Derby business - Motorway Sales (Derby) Ltd. By July 1969 the car was in Malta and I have a copy of the correspondence between the Maltese Automobile and Cycle Racing Association and Motorway Sales that states all of the above. The car was repatriated in 1988 and sold to an Italian friend of mine who still owns it today. 

There is a suggestion that the car had been owned before Mr Dixon by a "Mr Pierrepoint" - could this be Roy Pierpoint - did he have a Lotus 11 around the end of the fifties?  

Can anyone put flesh on these bones?  Any leads would be very much appreciated. 

Edited by Simon Hadfield, 18 February 2018 - 11:35.

[RobMk2a]

https://www.bonhams..../18267/lot/637/

See Bonhams auction In 2010 maybe a mix up of Lotus 15's and 11's

[Tim Murray]

There's an earlier thread called Lost Lotus Elevens which confirms that Roy Pierpoint and George Dixon were linked with with Lotus Fifteen chassis 622-3:
 

Post 12 is definitely Barry Bates' ex-Coombs Mark 15, chassis no. 609.
Post 13 is the ex-Roy Pierpoint/George Dixon Mark 15, no. 622-3, now resident in USA.
Post 17 is almost correct. 608 was an entirely different car to 626 and was scrapped after its December, 1958 crash. It's number was used 'for Custom's purposes', in getting the new 626-3 into Australia. The only commonality between the two cars was the owner.

It does seem likely, though, that if they were both associated with that Fifteen they might also have been associated with your Eleven.

Edited by Tim Murray, 07 January 2016 - 16:08.

[Peter Morley]

George Dixon bought a Fifteen (622-3) from Roy Pierpoint around 1961.

Pierpoint had bought the Fifteen from David Buxton, which is a Derby connection.

 

There's a bit of info. on Roy Pierpoint here.
http://forums.autosp...-roy-pierpoint/
 

[Simon Hadfield]

racingsportscars have Roy racing 622-3 from September 1960 until  late 1962, did Mr Dixon sell his 11 in 62 to buy Roy's Lotus 15 622-3?

There is also mention of Roy racing at Silverstone in 1960 in an up to 1500cc race - it would seem reasonable to think that that was a Lotus 11, Whether its anything to do with this is another question.  

Edited by Simon Hadfield, 08 January 2016 - 08:51.

[Simon Hadfield]

Just letting google have a bit more of a go, one of the directors of Motorway Sales was Alan Smith of engine building fame - and incidentally Motorway Sales built and ran the original Tatty Turner - and maybe that is why they were dealing in racecars at that time. 

[DUFFY]

Hi Simon,

I am also looking for references to a gentleman called George Dixon from Lincoln.

In the early 1960,s George Dixon owned a garage called Kirks Motors, Longdales Road, Lincoln and he was the East of England agent selling Rochdale Olympics for Rochdale Motor Panels.

He sold around 10 Olympics and the Sales Invoices in the RMP factory sales ledger show his details as G Dixon, Lincoln Racing Team, 3, Welbourn (no “e”) Gardens, Lincoln.

I am led to believe that this address is a very small council house and was used as an address for HP payments.

I am also led to believe George Dixon’s home address was The Hall, Holton-le-Moor, Lincolnshire.

In Nov 1961 George Dixon, Lincoln Racing Team purchased a Red Lightweight Rochdale Olympic which he raced, but I have traced no record of this. In fact in over 30 years of

research of Rochdale Olympics and their racing history, your post is the first reference to “Lincoln Racing Team” outside of my own records.

So any leads here would also be very much appreciated, let’s hope Simon we both may learn some think new from this.

 

Regards, Tony Stanton (Rochdale Olympic History Archive)

[chris shaw]

Simon

I have seen a snapshot of Historic Lotus register with a previous issue of their magazine which refers to a Lotus 11 article including George Dixon having a Lotus 11 so presumably he had that before the 15 - might be worth checking with them if you haven't done so already.

 

Tony - my early motor racing exposure was centred around Cadwell Park and I vividly recall George blasting past us on the drive back to Lincoln (not far away from Cadwell) in his 15 after a days racing - I think late 1967 or maybe 1968.  No trailer for him !  I can't recall seeing him race there past 1968 and I didn't miss many races in that era, so guess that might have been the end of his racing career.

 

Regards,

 

Chris

[Rupertlt1]

Begs the question does anybody have any programmes/entry lists for Cadwell Park in the sixties? (Racing Sports Cars is very sparse here). RGDS RLT

[Geoff E]

3 Welbourn Gardens was in 1957 the home of Stanley V Dixon.

 

Stanley Dixon had a son born in 1928, George S Dixon (as well as an earlier son, Osmond P Dixon).

Edited by Geoff E, 07 January 2016 - 21:08.

[RobMk2a]

Rupert,

See below your previous post mentions possible 2 Lotus 15 or atleast one Lotus with an up to 1,500 cc - is this the 11.

"AFAIK Pierpoint had two Lotus 15s, (? and 15-622-3?). He was a class winner up to 1,500 c.c., 28.8 sec at Firle Hill Climb on 2 October 1960 (See Autosport, Sept 16, 1960, Page 394.) FTD at Bodiam, October 13, 1962, in 28.0 sec in the Lotus 15-Climax 2-litre (Autosport, October 26, 1962, Page 584). I think these were two different cars. Drove the latter, #82, to win the Anerley Trophy, 15 laps at Crystal Palace, September 1, 1962. Car fitted with 1,960 c.c. Coventry-Climax motor."

Regards

Rob

[Simon Hadfield]

Thank you all for your replies so far, Mr Dixon obviously was a real person and the Roy Pierpoint connection looks at the very least possible. The Firle Hillclimb car could possibly be the same car as Roy used at Silverstone. 

Tony, I think its fascinating to find out that Mr Dixon was rather more involved in the sport than I had ever thought, the problem now is, as you say, to find more hard facts and photographic evidence. 

[Rupertlt1]

George Dixon was also a Lotus dealer - a number of references in Motor Sport. RGDS RLT

 

PS: Does this Lotus have a registration number?

Edited by Rupertlt1, 08 January 2016 - 13:04.

[RobMk2a]

As you say Racing Sports cars shows Roy Pierpoint in a 1475 cc Lotus no. 12 at Silverstone in 16/7/60 the GP meeting. Racing Sports Cars says Roy's Lotus dns so may be difficult to get photos.

The car is entered by Wayside Garage Roy's venture with Alan Mann, maybe Henry has some photos from this time?

Rob

Edited by RobMk2a, 08 January 2016 - 13:42.

[bradbury west]

Was Pierpoint's garage Weyside, after the local river, rather than Wayside, as I am anxious to find out more? I am especially interested in Weyside Engineering from that period in the same locale, as it will assist in clarifying an old erroneous chestnut. Also did anyone trace him and speak to him after earlier posts?

Roger Lund

[RobMk2a]

Wayside - see link - www.alanmann.co.uk › our-story

Rob

[Simon Hadfield]

The Lotus 11 in question is ARC 322 in a period photograph of Renato Bertorelli at Brands in 1966, however the logbook has 332 ARC (!) when a buff continuation log book was issued to Motorway Sales in July 1962, which would suggest that the Derby number was issued then.  Could a "personal plate" be retained back then? Did Mr Dixon have a registration that followed him about - was it transferred to the Lotus 15 which we now know he drove on the road. The car is described in the logbook as a Red Lotus 11 Sports with a 1100 cc engine, not mentioned on the logbook is the fact that it had magnesium wheels.  

Edited by Simon Hadfield, 08 January 2016 - 16:36.

[Tim Murray]

Is this the same George Dixon who owned (or had links to) various single-seaters in the '60s and '70s, including a GRD 373, the ex-Chris Lambert Brabham BT21 and March 701/6?

[Geoff E]

I am led to believe that this address is a very small council house and was used as an address for HP payments.

I am also led to believe George Dixon’s home address was The Hall, Holton-le-Moor, Lincolnshire.

 

I'm having trouble putting these two facts together -

 

3 Welbourn Gardens, a council house, was the home of Stanley Dixon, son of a Lincoln publican, grandson of a millwright from Boston. After Stan's death, his son Osmond Dixon lived there.

 

Holton Hall was built by the Dixons in the 18th century and in 1933 was the home of Rev Thomas George Dixon MA JP

 

???

Edited by Geoff E, 08 January 2016 - 18:05.

[Charles Helps]

The Winter 2015 edition of Historic Lotus has an article by Peter Cottam saying that he bought his Lotus XI GT 'Breadvan' from George Dixon in 1968.  This appears to be the wire-wheeled car that Graham Capel raced in 1964 entered by Plumstead Racing.

 

It is possible that George Dixon owned more than one Eleven as the Bertorelli car is a later XI GT with a different body and wobbly web wheels.

 

Somewhere I seem to remember seeing a list of Lotuses owned by George Dixon over the years.  It was a long list!

[Simon Hadfield]

As the car we have here was an open two seater Lotus 11 when sold in 1962 it is very different to the Graham Capel car. It is interesting that Mr Dixon was still buying and selling the occasional Lotus some years later. If Mr Dixon was a Lotus dealer in period it stands to reason his name would be attached to a fair number of cars, but from that list is there any way of working out which was his red, wobbly web wheeled Series Two in 1962?
I believe there were two Lotus 11 GTs with the same body as the Bertorelli car, the other was Don Marriott's
Another question is, was Mr Dixon a full Lotus dealer or a guy who bought and sold the odd car now and again?

Edited by Simon Hadfield, 08 January 2016 - 20:11.

[Rupertlt1]

Listed in a Lotus advertisement in Motor Sport in 1960 as a Lotus Dealer:

 

Kirks Motors

Longdales Road

Lincoln

Tel: 25947

 

RGDS RLT

Edited by Rupertlt1, 09 January 2016 - 00:59.

[Alan Cox]

Simon, I don't know whether it is worth seeking out photographs from the C T (Tom) March archive who, I seem to recall, was based in the Lincolnshire area. I know he travelled around all the UK circuits (and, sometimes, France) and may have been particularly disposed to photograph a car if there was a local connection

[Rupertlt1]

Does this car from 1963 have any connection?

 

https://revslib.stan...log/zj892vp3583

 

Update: https://library.revs...-3-hours/383926

 

Driver becomes Dickinson here?

 

https://revslib.stan...log/ym263mx4359

 

Update: https://library.revs...rch/ym263mx4359

 

More here:

 

https://revslib.stan...log/hh223zm8212

 

Update: https://library.revs...-3-hours/413894

 

RGDS RLT

Edited by Rupertlt1, 30 April 2024 - 04:26.

[Simon Hadfield]

All of those are the John Dickinson car - actually the car used to homologate the Lotus 11 GT. There were a fair number of 11GTs around at that time as open sports racing cars were superseded by GT racing. My father put a roof on his Series 2 11 for exactly that reason, he raced his primarily around the North East - Ingliston, Rufforth, Croft, and when we moved down to near Melton Mowbray, at Mallory Park, Cadwell and very occasionally Silverstone.

Edited by Simon Hadfield, 09 January 2016 - 16:32.

[Charles Helps]

John Dickinson's appears to have been the last Eleven to be built (in December 1961) and the first to be converted into a GT. It ran with wire wheels and had a glass panel in the otherwise perspex windscreen.

 

I have found the list I referred to above.  It was actually an article by Bill Colson in Historic Lotus in Summer 2002 titled 'Lotus Cars owned by George Dixon'.  Two Lotus Elevens are listed: an S1 and an S2 registered 800 CAR.

 

Having looked a bit more carefully the ex-Dixon/Cottam car appears to have been another 'Breadvan' shape commissioned and raced, starting in 1964, by Ben Moore of Witham Service Station, Hull.

[Simon Hadfield]

Thank you again Charles. Does anyone know if Mr Dixon kept the registration 800 CAR? Was that moved to his ex Pierpoint Lotus 15? Did it appear on a Rochdale?
Quite off this topic but father raced against Ben Moore on many occasions!

Edited by Simon Hadfield, 09 January 2016 - 18:00.

[DUFFY]

Vehicle details DVLA for 800 CAR, looks as if car is on the road Taxed

Vehicle make LOTUS ELEVEN

Date of first registration 30 July 1998

Year of manufacture 1958

Cylinder capacity (cc) 1475cc

CO₂Emissions Not available

Fuel type PETROL

Vehicle status Tax not due

Vehicle colour SILVER

 

 Tony

[DUFFY]

I am pleased to have a result from this topic, I have been sent a scan of a page from a motor racing programme.

 

Rufforth. Sept 9th. 1961.

Event 3.  10 lap scratch race for Sports and GT type cars up to 1600cc.

Car no – 116.  Driver. G S Dixon.  Rochdale Olympic.   1489cc.  

 

This is 2 months before he purchased the Red Lightweight Rochdale Olympic, so it looks like George Dixon may have raced 2 different Olympics?

 

Tony

 

 

edit (big fingers)

Edited by DUFFY, 09 January 2016 - 19:46.

[Simon Hadfield]

Very interesting. There is information that in June 1958 Derek Randall finished third at Snetterton in an up to 1100cc Sports Car race in Lotus 11 800 CAR. Chassis number given as S2 346. Why then does the DVLA data give first registration as 1998?
That chassis number is in a sequence of Mag wheeled A30 gearbox S2s.

Tony, the circuit should be Rufforth I think.

[Simon Hadfield]

Just found reference to Derek Randall finishing 3rd in Heat 2, "his first time out in his new car", at Crystal Palace on Whit Monday, 26th May 1958.

Edited by Simon Hadfield, 09 January 2016 - 18:50.

[Rupertlt1]

Could this be 800 CAR (third vehicle in shot)? Possibly #40?

 

https://revslib.stan...log/vz593jr7103

 

This certainly is:

 

https://revslib.stan...log/qy337wj9729

 

Update: https://library.revs...rch/qy337wj9729

 

And here:

 

https://revslib.stan...log/ch400fx3598

 

RGDS RLT

Edited by Rupertlt1, 30 April 2024 - 04:29.

[Charles Helps]

Simon, from Bill Colson's 2002 article: "While attending at Goodwood in 1999, Dixon noted an Eleven carrying the licence number 800 CAR, and having taken time to closely examine it, was naturally disappointed that it was quite a different car to that which he had once owned"...

 

If the registration book has been lost the DVLA or their local predecessors often used the date the re-application for the registration was processed.

[Geoff E]

3 Welbourn Gardens was in 1957 the home of Stanley V Dixon.

 

Stanley Dixon had a son born in 1928, George S Dixon (as well as an earlier son, Osmond P Dixon).

 

 

I am pleased to have a result from this topic, I have been sent a scan of a page from a motor racing programme.

 

 ... Car no – 116.  Driver. G S Dixon.  Rochdale Olympic.   1489cc.

 

 

I think this confirms the Dixons of Holton-le-Moor are not relevant.

 

EDIT: 3 Welbourn Gardens was just 0.6 miles from Kirk's garage.  Perhaps George DIxon worked there http://tinyurl.com/j5omfsk

Edited by Geoff E, 09 January 2016 - 19:39.

[Simon Hadfield]

Fascinating information. In Rupert's second photograph you cannot see light through the inside wheel as you can on the car in front so they could be mag wheels as opposed to wires. We would need a programme to see if the car was red but again we can't say it wasn't.
As to Charles' quote from Bill Colson's article the bits of information keep trying to align I think but there is still the issue of the car being 800 CAR then becoming 332 ARC if it really is the same car.
There is another small bit of similarity - the flat top section of the tail had been substantially cut away to allow access to the diff etc when the fibreglass roof section was bonded on top. However in the top of the right hand rear wing and between the rear lights the dimples and dzus wires were still there with old witness marks from where a tail/head fairing had been fitted.

Edited by Simon Hadfield, 09 January 2016 - 20:03.

[DUFFY]

I'm having trouble putting these two facts together -

 

3 Welbourn Gardens, a council house, was the home of Stanley Dixon, son of a Lincoln publican, grandson of a millwright from Boston. After Stan's death, his son Osmond Dixon lived there.

 

Holton Hall was built by the Dixons in the 18th century and in 1933 was the home of Rev Thomas George Dixon MA JP

 

???

 

When you are doing research you cannot always believe what you read or what you are told, but you make a note of the details and over the years you hope to put the jigsaw together.

This is why in my first post I say, “I am led to believe” this is till I am more sure of the facts.

In 1961 George Dixon would have been aged 33, would he have been still living with his father in Welbourn Gardens? Was he married with a family some where else?

If he had all these cars he was not keeping them at a small council house, so where was the “Lincoln Racing Team” based?

This is why we are here on TNF asking the questions to see if we can with the help of other like-minded people find the answers.

 

Tony. 

[DUFFY]

Would anyone know if George Dixon is still around at 87?

 

Tony

[Simon Hadfield]

Going back to Mr Dixon's activities as a Lotus dealer, there is no mention in the Lotus 11 sales records and nothing in the Lotus Elite records until his name - not Lincoln Racing Team or Kirks Motors - is attached to #1530 but only after the name JJ Kilcourse in the customer column, this on 23/6/62. So unless he sold a Lotus 7 or two he was not the most prolific Lotus outlet. Kirk's Motors do advertise in Lotus and Sports Car Owner particularly pushing the Lotus 7 so that would seem to have been their niche.
Returning to the Rochdale might actually give a clue - did he know Richard Parker from the Bristol/Lotus Elite connection and the Rochdale agency grew from there? He would have been a bigger pebble in that pond. Could Kirks Motors have been more of a service agency for Lotus and the "dealer" tag just came with that?

Edited by Simon Hadfield, 10 January 2016 - 11:09.

[Geoff E]

This is why in my first post I say, “I am led to believe” this is till I am more sure of the facts.

In 1961 George Dixon would have been aged 33, would he have been still living with his father in Welbourn Gardens? Was he married with a family some where else?

If he had all these cars he was not keeping them at a small council house, so where was the “Lincoln Racing Team” based?

This is why we are here on TNF asking the questions to see if we can with the help of other like-minded people find the answers.

 

Tony. 

 

His elder brother (Osmond) apparently remained unmarried and lived in the same house into the 1980s at least.

 

Perhaps the team was based at Kirk's garage.  Incidentally, the contact for the present Mercedes dealership in Lincoln is a Steve Kirk.

http://www.motorcode...-benz-1618.html

 

The Kirk of Kirk's Garage was Alfred Lawrence Kirk (1924-2003)

Edited by Geoff E, 10 January 2016 - 12:01.

[DUFFY]

Hi,

I have not gone away I am following a couple of leads, which may take a few days. I will be back when I know more.

Simon could you please contact Steve Kirk as he may know about the old Kirks Motors.

 

Regards, Tony.

[Geoff E]

I have been in contact with an old schoolmate of GSD's -

 

 "I remember him at the City School, (Monks Road) 1938 to 1943. He was mad on aircraft too, but we all were at that time .He was a great guy. I have not seen him for years"

 

(My school too)

 

I've asked some supplementary questions about Dixon.

 

EDIT: Ian Ashley attended sixth form at the City School, Lincoln.

Edited by Geoff E, 10 January 2016 - 18:50.

[chris shaw]

I've found some old Cadwell programmes in the attic that show George Dixon racing his Lotus (marked as a 15D).  Simon's note about Renato Bertorelli made me think and he also pops up.  Programmes were quite basic then but the details of Entrant/Driver, Car cc, Town are -

 

1. 16 April 1967 Sports racing cars has G. Dixon Lotus15D Ford 1594cc Lincoln in the Sports Racing Cars Class and Renato Bertorelli in the special Grand Touring Cars class in Lotus11 Climax 1098cc London.  Renato finished third in the GT race.  George ran in the Sports car race where he was second (to Tony Dean in his Crossle BMW) and also Formula Libre race but wasn't in top 3 in that.  Ben Moore (named in an earlier thread) also ran a Lotus 23 Ford (1148cc Hull).

 

2. 1st October 1967. George again in his Lotus 15D Ford in the sports racing Class and Formula Libre.  No top 3 finishes. 

 

3. 3rd March 1968 George again in Sports Racing class and Formula Libre.  By this time there were Chevrons and more modern sports cars, so probably the 15D was showing its age.

 

Other interesting old Lotus 11 appearing at earlier races was George Silverwood in Derek Buller-Sinfield's Lotus 11 Climax 1148cc and was successful before moving on to the Mercury Ford.

 

There is a B&W photo in the March '68 programme which I think might be George and registration appears to be BVL 99C if that rings any bells ?  No mention of Lincoln Racing team as an entrant in any of the programmes.

 

These probably don't assist Simon with his original question (other than the Renato Bertorelli link) but might help on the George Dixon trail.

 

Chris

[Geoff E]

Another contact on Facebook has come up with this -

 

"George Dixon used to race Lotus 15s among other cars.he also dealt in rebuilt cars. I welded a few car shells for him.he wanted them gas welding (no mig or tig then ) on top of that I had to braze over all the welded joints . He used Gadd's stables at the bottom of St Helens Ave as a workshop.

 

The Lotus 15 was red with fibreglass bonnet, every race he seemed to bend it and if the bonnet was a write off I used it to keep the workshop warm by burning it on a pot bellied stove. He used to buy old Morris minor pickups and take a sledge hammer to the roof and doors to make it look like it had been rolled. He would sit at the traffic lights next to any flash car and leave them standing - what folk didn't realise was he had had a BMC 1500 Cooper tuned engine in instead of the 1000cc standard engine.he always wore a white shirt even when he was messing with cars."

 

(Thanks to Ralph Jackson for this)

Edited by Geoff E, 11 January 2016 - 17:31.

[46700]

Just letting google have a bit more of a go, one of the directors of Motorway Sales was Alan Smith of engine building fame - and incidentally Motorway Sales built and ran the original Tatty Turner - and maybe that is why they were dealing in racecars at that time. 

 I worked at Motorway sales for a short period in that time frame  & the Race side was more dealing with engine preparation than the sales of cars; At the time Warwick Banks drove the "Tatty Turner which was looked after by Roy Christmas, I personally found Alan difficult to get on with so left after a short time.Also being located in 2 railway arches it was not the most welcoming of workshops window wise

[Michael Oliver]

This probably doesn't help with your 11 research but George Dixon was racing a Lotus 15-Ford on 19th July 1964 at the BRSCC (Northern Centre) meeting at Cadwell Park, finishing 1st in the race for sports cars up to 2000cc (Source: Autosport 24/07/64 p160).

[Simon Hadfield]

Again thank you for all the input. While some information does not directly link to the Lotus 11 it can give a background to what Mr Dixon did.  I presumed that Alan Smith's own engine building firm grew out of Motorway Sales but that the engine building there was a link that enabled people from around the UK  to be involved with the car sales.

 Mr father bought a Coventry Climax FWA cylinder head from Alan Smith, he told father it was a head that The Hon Richard Wrottesley had used, whatever it was a real step forward from the original head father had in his car up until then.  He found Alan very straightforward and helpful - but then he was giving him money....

[Michael Oliver]

Simon, in the latest HLR mag is a copy of an ad from Autosport 14/01/1966, where someone from 3 Welbourn Gardens, Lincoln advertises a GT Hard top and windscreen.

[Rupertlt1]

This may shed some light, red #85 with offset stripe, from 1965:

 

https://revslib.stan...log/th586cj6026

 

Part view?

 

https://revslib.stan...log/ww195kg5674

 

Also see:

 

http://www.racingspo...965-04-19ae.jpg

 

Note three Lotus XI GTs in the same event.

 

Who was A. Gough?

 

http://www.racingspo..._-Gough-GB.html

 

Alan Gough:

 

http://forums.autosp...s/#entry3688517

 

Dee-Jay Racing was a limited company (wound up in 1978). A company of that name supplied anti-roll bars to the Alexander tuning company for sale in their catalogue. Possible connection to Maidstone, Kent? The car in the picture looks well presented.

 

 

RGDS RLT

Edited by Rupertlt1, 17 January 2016 - 09:17.

[Rupertlt1]

Red Lotus XI at Rufforth 1962 here:

 

 

Possible dates April 21, June 9th, July 7 or 8?, September 8th.

 

RGDS RLT

Edited by Rupertlt1, 18 January 2016 - 17:39.

[lot313]

As the car we have here was an open two seater Lotus 11 when sold in 1962 it is very different to the Graham Capel car. It is interesting that Mr Dixon was still buying and selling the occasional Lotus some years later. If Mr Dixon was a Lotus dealer in period it stands to reason his name would be attached to a fair number of cars, but from that list is there any way of working out which was his red, wobbly web wheeled Series Two in 1962?
I believe there were two Lotus 11 GTs with the same body as the Bertorelli car, the other was Don Marriott's
Another question is, was Mr Dixon a full Lotus dealer or a guy who bought and sold the odd car now and again?

The Third one was on the ex Cambell Jones chassis No. 311. A friend ( Fred Ferier ) had the car before it went to Tony Collard and I bought the gt bodywork to use on 313 from Tony.

313  Reg No.BSW 775 was well used and had a lot of scruierneering tickets from Mallory and Cadwell.

The GT bodywork was made by Fibre Glass Repairs in Shorlands near Bromley Kent.

313 was taken in part exchanged for a car  ( midget ? ) from Ollie Thatches Southend Racing Partnership.

 

Just seen this on the 10 thenths forum

 

"Ollie was a partner with Peter Beech and my late very good friend, Alan Daykin, in SRP: Southend Racing Partnership. Prior to his Escort days. They raced MG Midgets in Modsports and distance events."