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[dgs]

Has anyone got a full result sheet for this meeting?

 

Especially interested in following:

 

Class 3:  Racing Cars 1101cc to 1500cc

 

No 35  AE Marsh  (Cooper 1098S/c)

 

Class 7:  Sports Cars 751cc- 1300cc

 

No 72  AE Marsh  (Dellow 1172cc) maybe supercharged ?

 

Class 8:  Sports Cars 1301cc-2000cc

 

No 92  AE Marsh  (Dellow 1172cc)  may be supercharged ?

 

Details as shown taken from typed up lists found on Motor Racing Programmes page (internet)

 

I do not know if Tony Marsh appeared at this event

[Rupertlt1]

Best efforts:

 

STAVERTON SPEED TRIALS

WITH a time of 28.6 secs., F. B. Sowrey

(1,100 Cooper) broke the Staverton

course record at the Cheltenham M.C.s

meeting on 23rd May. lvor Bueb,

having won his own trophy for the best

500 c.c. performance, presented it to

Jack Moor (Wasp). The members'

award was won by P. J. Stubberfield

(Bugatti), and the trophy for the best

750 c.c. sports car by C. G. Summers

(Arden). George Wood (Aston Martin)

and W. M. Jasilkowski (Jaguar) tied for

the best performance by a touring car.

Results

Racing, up to 500 c.c.: 1. I. L. Bueb (Cooper).

31.2 secs.: 2. E. J. Moor (Wasp), 31.6: 3. J. F.

Denley (Cooper), 32.4. 501-1,100 c.c.: F. B.

Sowrey (Cooper), 28.6. 1,101-1,500 c.c.: 1. J. B.

Welton (Cooper), 31.8: 2. C. G. Arengo (Cooper

Spl.) and I. L. Bueb (Cooper), 32.8. 1,501-2,500 

c.c.: J. Berry (E.R.A. Spl.), 30.6. Over 2,500 c.c.:

P. J. Stubberfield (Bugatti).30.0.

Sports, up to 750 c.c.: 1. C. G. Summers (Arden),

40.0: 2. J. Whitehouse (Arden), 40.6. 751-1,300

c.c.: 1. I. L. Bueb (Cooper-Riley). 36.8; 2. D. R.

Piper (M.G. J.4), 37.0; 3. J. N. Dobbs (Buckler)'

37.2. 1,301-2,000 c.c.: 1. M. Burn (Frazer-Nash),

32.0.: 2. A. Palmer-Morewood (Frazer-Nash), 32.8:

3. H. Porteous (Porteous Spl.), 34.2. 2,001-2,750

c.c.: 1. W. Bradley (Austin-Healey), 34.4: 2. G. M.

White (Austin-Healey), 35.0. Over 2,750 c.c.: 1. B.

Baxter (Jaguar), 30.4; 2. H. Mecrow (Jaguar), 33.4:

3. G. N. Mansell (Jaguar), 33.8.

Touring, up to 1,000 c.c.: 1. C. M. Wyatt

(Austin), 47.2: 2. A. M. Gilbert (Austin), 48.6

1,001-1,600 c.c.: 1. J. S. French (Rover), 42.8:

2. J. M. Readings (M. G. Magnette), 44.6. l,601-

2,500 c.c.: 1. F. B. Wadsworth (Healey), 37.4; 2.

D. C. Pitt (Healey), 40.2. Over 2,500 c.c. 1. G.

Wood (Aston Martin), and W. M. Jasilkowski

(Jaguar), 36.2 (tie).

Autosport, 4 June 1954, Page 728

 

A. E. Marsh, Cooper S/C, 25.59 secs, was BTD at Westbrook Hay, on Saturday 22 May 1954.

 

RGDS RLT

Edited by Rupertlt1, 04 May 2022 - 06:54.

[dgs]

Thank you Rupertit1

 

I had my doubts that Tony Marsh appeared at this Staverton meeting. I had not times but a friend mentioned that Tony

did not appear in first three in any class.

 

Also I was aware that Tony Marsh had recorded BTD at Westbrook Hay (22nd May 1954) in his Cooper-JAP (supercharged).

 

I believe he also entered his Dellow 1172cc (supercharged) sports car at this event. Do you have a time on this ?

[RogerFrench]

I have always thought that my father's Rover 12 was a very unlikely competition car, but it got a class win in our local sprint!

[Rupertlt1]

No mention of Marsh and the Dellow in Autosport at Westbrook Hay.

 

RGDS RLT

Edited by Rupertlt1, 06 May 2022 - 05:31.

[dgs]

Tony Marsh in his autobiography writes (page 38) "Westbrrok Hay produced a BTD over Michael Christie's blown Cooper on my first visit to the almost suburban hill climb, near Hemel Hemstead in Hertfordshire. Once again I took the Dellow along too".

[Tim Murray]

One of the disappointing things about Tony’s autobiography (for me, anyway) was how little he seemed to remember about the events he competed in. He seemed to rely on magazine reports for details of what he’d done, with apparently no memory of them himself, hence very few interesting reminiscences or anecdotes. I’m wondering therefore how reliable his statement regarding Westbrook Hay might be.

[Rupertlt1]

I thought we'd traced his white Lotus Elite but I can't seem to find it?

 

RGDS RLT 

[Geoff E]

"The new Dellow sports car made its first appearance and was driven into third place in two events by Tony Marsh."

 

Birmingham Daily Post (7-6-54), reporting on Silverstone MMEC meeting on 5-6-54.

[dgs]

One of the disappointing things about Tony’s autobiography (for me, anyway) was how little he seemed to remember about the events he competed in. He seemed to rely on magazine reports for details of what he’d done, with apparently no memory of them himself, hence very few interesting reminiscences or anecdotes. I’m wondering therefore how reliable his statement regarding Westbrook Hay might be.

I am not surprised Tony Marsh could not remember all his races.

On my database he competed in one event (1952) twenty events (1953) forty events (1954) and thirty nine (1955)

 

That's a lot to remember sixty years later