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#1 RAP

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Posted 15 February 2017 - 20:02

I am in the process of reviewing and updating Paul Sheldon's "A Record of Grand Prix and Voiturette Racing" 1926-31. Boucly is in the first edition as a driver of Salmson, Rally and Tony Specials, mainly in the south of France. The first name shown is Marcel. The many Web sites that use our book as a source (usually without a credit) show the same.

 

I have found five pieces of evidence to indicate that Marcel may be wrong and it should be Roger. The purpose of this post is to ask if anyone has evidence of Marcel, or can further support Roger as the chap's first name - or were there two drivers ?

 

French period programmes and reports only rarely gave driver first names but these are the instances I have found -

 

La Stampa 20.6.32 report on hillclimb

Express du Midi 22.02.35 announcing the  marriage engagement of Roger Boucly "the racing driver from Nice who is entered in the Pau GP"

Petit Nicois 03.03.30 - advertisement for success by Tony Special

 l'Eclaireur de Nice et Sud-Est 07.04.33  Results for La Turbie hillclimb

ADAC document for 31 Avusrennen - I have been told (but not seen) that this uses Roger

 

Richard Page

www.formulaoneregister.com



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#2 Rupertlt1

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Posted 15 February 2017 - 21:15

There are eight instances of Boucly in Motor Sport during the thirties.

Only one gives a first name, Motor Sport, April 1935, Page 250, report on Pau Grand Prix practice:

 

"Just before the end of the session Roger Boucly roared down the Avenue du Bois Louis to the corner in front of the grand stands. He left braking until too late and slithered across the road straight into a private car which had been carelessly left there by an official of a French motor club. Boucly was shot out of the cockpit, and was removed to the hospital on an ambulance. Fortunately, he was not seriously hurt, and the doctors said he would be out and about in a few days.

This might have been a wholesale slaughter of spectators, for they all rushed across the road to Boucly's crashed Bugatti, regardless of the fact that other cars were approaching at high speed."

 

This letter from 1976 talks of Marcel Boucly, and also points to a connection with Nice, France:

 

http://www.motorspor...g-lea-francis-0

 

RGDS RLT 


Edited by Rupertlt1, 16 February 2017 - 11:52.


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Posted 16 February 2017 - 20:32

Thanks Rupert - looking pretty convincing !