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[terry mcgrath]

I have a UK buff logbook here for a 2 seater Rettoc Road Racer registered  10th june 1933 [AGX417]

noted as 10hp 4 cyl engine number CM2331

Does anyone have any idea what this is?

[Geoff E]

Perhaps the steed of a Mr Cotter?

[terry mcgrath]

David George Sinclair

it is a bit scary to get that level of info

you obviously know a lot more - what is it? do you have a photo? 

regards terry

tmcgrath@bigpond.com

Perhaps the steed of a Mr Cotter?

[Geoff E]

David George Sinclair

it is a bit scary to get that level of info

you obviously know a lot more - what is it? do you have a photo? 

 

 

Hi Terry... if you're addressing that to me, it was just an observation that Rettoc is Cotter spelt backwards.

[Charlieman]

And DGS Cotter raced in 500cc F3...

[Geoff E]

And DGS Cotter raced in 500cc F3...

 

The Probate Register shows his forenames to have been David George Sinclair, rather a coincidence I think.

 

EDIT: He was 1913-2003.

Edited by Geoff E, 20 June 2021 - 15:34.

[Vitesse2]

And DGS Cotter raced in 500cc F3...

 

 

The Probate Register shows his forenames to have been David George Sinclair, rather a coincidence I think.

 

EDIT: He was 1913-2003.

But there was also a David George Sinclair (1909-80). Seems to have lived in or around the Medway area of Kent all his life, married 1931. GX being a SE London registration could fit ...

[Vitesse2]

DGS Cotter had been - according to his private pilot's licence, issued August 1945 at White Waltham - a Flight Captain in the ATA. Presumably he'd learned to fly during the war but didn't measure up to RAF/FAA standards? Poor eyesight?

 

Was apparently living in Ealing before the war.

[Tim Murray]

DGS Cotter was awarded an MBE for gallantry in 1944. The brief biographical details relating to the award say he had been a Pilot Officer in the RAF before WW2 but his RAF career had been ended by ill health:

https://www.dnw.co.u...&lot_uid=137355