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[RobMk2a]

Just sitting down to watch the Grand National, For my TVR racing research I wondered does anyone have an archive with copies of programme / reports / photographs for Aintree members meeting.

In particular I'm looking for more details of :-

JP Hacking BARC 13th August 1955 - photo would be very interesting.JP Hacking also raced MGTD and Elva Courier
John Cookson TVR Notchback say April 1959
JC Thurner's Mk1 Grantura, BARC Sprint July 1959. 1st Class 2 Touring cars.
JC Thurner Mk1 Grantura BARC Members Meeting, 29th August 1959 2nd Closed car handicap.
JC Thurner Mk1.8th BARC Members meeting 19th Sept 1959 2nd photo of this car would be good.
JC Thurner Mk1.or 2 10th BARC members meeting Sept 1960 1st 7 lap handicap.
Keith Aitchision BARC 200 8th March 1960. 12 KMA Mk1 - (currently for sale through Jim Lowry).

I'm keen to find out engine sizes as this helps identify the cars.

Any other details of TVR's at Aintree.

Thank you Rob Pennington

[Rupertlt1]

B.A.R.C. 2nd Aintree Members' Meeting - 13th August 1955

Event 1-Up to 1500 c.c. (scratch)

1. J.B. Naylor (Lotus-Connaught) 74.51 m.p.h.

2.. J.P. Hacking (T.V.R.)

3. J. Blumer (M.G. TC)

Fastest lap-J.B. Naylor (Lotus-Connaught) 1 min 17.6, 76.08 m.p.h.

 

RGDS RLT

Edited by Rupertlt1, 09 April 2016 - 18:28.

[RobMk2a]

Rupert - thank you.

I'm very interested to find out which TVR JP (Jim?) Hacking was racing, it is just possible it was the first backbone Grantura style chassis however it may be an earlier Austin A40 based chassis car possibly with an RGS based body (as seen at Barbon Hillclimb in May 1955 - if anyone has Barbon programmes from this time please let me know). The first 2 prototypes of the Grantura style chassis were constructed some time in late 1955.

Colin Escott was in the same race at Aintree in a Lester MG but retired after one lap. Traugott? Was also in another Lester MG. I understand Naylor's Lotus Connaught was the Ex John Coombs Lotus VIII. Naylor's lap speed is quite high at 74 mph and whilst he won easily, I would be surprised if Hacking, coming 2nd was in the earlier chassis TVR (although it is possible).
I like find out more about JP Hacking, he also raced a MGTF and later took part in a relay race at MGCC Silverstone in May 1958 with future TVR racer Tommy Entwistle. As said above he also raced an Elva Courier.

Thanks

Rob

[RAP]

Aintree 13 Aug 55 

#4 J P Hacking  TVR 1467 cc colour Red

 

29 Aug 59

#12 J C Thurner TVR 1489cc colour Green

 

RAP

[RobMk2a]

RAP - Thank you

Looks as though John Thurner's Mk1 has an early MGA engine.

JP Hacking - 1467cc capacity is slightly unusual is this a MG XPEG engine. The red could help narrow the car down,
its not conclusive but the first 'backbone' chassis car was supposed to have been red.
Rob

[RobMk2a]

RAP - just found a post from 2006 where you mention 'A Record of Motor Racing at Aintree by Graham Heath & John Lawson.

I have Robert Barker's (Formula One Register) book on Goodwood can you say if the Aintree book contains the same comprehensive detail particularly for the Member's Meetings.

Now need to find someone selling it!

Thank you

Rob

[Sharman]

I admit to colour blindness reds/greens, i wonder if that could have been the TVR I drove in Wilmslow back in 1955. The one with the Rochdale C type body.

[RobMk2a]

John,

I'll send you a photo of the potential Rochdale bodied car to see if it rings any bells. If it is same as JP Hacking's car it is before the 'backbone' chassis prototypes.

Rob

[DUFFY]

Hi Rob,

 

Please send me a photo of the potential Rochdale bodied car to see if it rings any bells with me.

 

Regards, Tony.

[d j fox]

Rob

" A Record of Motor Racing at Aintree" is similar to the F1 Register books. The authors list each race by Number, Entrant/Driver, Car, colour, race position (or retired/dns) and usually grid positions for all races on the GP and Club circuits ,from the openining event in 1950 through to the "end" in 1964 in two volumes .

 

David

[RobMk2a]

David,

Thank you - I'll try to get a copy.

Rob

[bradbury west]

RAP - just found a post from 2006 where you mention 'A Record of Motor Racing at Aintree by Graham Heath & John 

Rob

Rob, did you manage to find anyone with a copy of this book? Like you I have an interest in the  29/8/59 event.

Roger Lund

[RobMk2a]

Rob, did you manage to find anyone with a copy of this book? Like you I have an interest in the  29/8/59 event.

Roger Lund

No sorry but I would be interested if anyone has a copy. 

 

Rob 

[Dick Dastardly]

If there is an A.Senior [Arthur Senior] in an Austin A40, Austin A90 or Riley 1.5 on the entry lists and/or results, that is my late father. He used to do saloon races, especially handicap ones, in his road car. On 1 handicap race, he narrowly won from Jean Bloxham in her Aston Martin...another 20 yards or so, she would have won, she was coming up so fast but he held on to win but she sailed past him just after the flag. Etiquette in those days was after the flag you held position on the slowing down lap.....Jean was going so fast, she had little choice but to go past....in the paddock afterwards, she apologised to him for doing so but given the speed she was going, she had no other choice but to go past him   Sorry, I don't have any dates as to when he competed there.

[Rupertlt1]

Barbon Hill Climb, Westmoreland Motor Club, Sunday 22 May 1955

Sports cars up to 1,750c.c., unsupercharged:

1 A. Ensoll (Middlesbrough) M.G. (37.26).

2 P. Jackson (St. Annes) Cooper MG.

3 J. P. Hacking (Birkenhead) T.V.R.

Lancaster Guardian, Friday 27 May 1955

 

RGDS RLT

[bradbury west]

Alan Ensoll, of course, later ran a very nice D Type,  the ex Murkett bros TKF9?,  which I saw at my first event, at Castle Howard , in September 1959.

Roger Lund