7 replies to this topic

[Patrick Sumner]

Does anyone amongst the knowledgeable readers on this forum have a collection of Brooklands programmes? In particular I am trying to find detail on a car and driver at the following meetings in order to identify film:

 

BARC Meeting 10/9/32

BARC Meeting 7/8/33

 

If anyone can help please PM me and I'll give the details of the car, driver and races.  Many thanks.

[terry mcgrath]

my 1933 programs typical none you want!

1933                           Feb-18 12 Hour Trial Bournemouth ü         May-27 Shelsley Walsh ü         Jun-24 Brooklands ü         Jul-01 Brooklands       Sup Regs   Jul-06 Scarborough Trial & Rally ü         Sep-16 Brooklands 500 mile race       official result shts   Sep-23 Brighton Speed Trial ü         Oct-07 Donington Park ü        

[Patrick Sumner]

Thank you Terry for your reply.  I've just received all the info I wanted from another forum user, amazing!  What a source this forum is.

[Patrick Sumner]

 

my 1933 programs typical none you want!

1933                           Feb-18 12 Hour Trial Bournemouth ü         May-27 Shelsley Walsh ü         Jun-24 Brooklands ü         Jul-01 Brooklands       Sup Regs   Jul-06 Scarborough Trial & Rally ü         Sep-16 Brooklands 500 mile race       official result shts   Sep-23 Brighton Speed Trial ü         Oct-07 Donington Park ü        

 

I've sent you a PM about one the programmes you list. Many thanks.

[Patrick Sumner]

Another Brooklands programme request.  Does anyone have the programme for the 1931 August Bank Holiday meeting? I am trying to marry up car numbers to drivers and cars on a digitised cine film.

[Doug Nye]

The Official Race Card for the Brooklands Bank Holiday Meeting on August 3, 1931, offers the following information:

 

Race 1 ("About 12 miles") - THE FIRST AUGUST MOUNTAIN HANDICAP - "Start and finish opposite the Paddock..."

 

No 1 - R. Mays Invicta

2 - V.S.Balls Talbot

3 - L.C. Rawlence OM

4 - A.O.Mathieson OM

5 - A.N.L. Maclachlan Lea-Francis

6 - J.C. Elwes Austin

7 - P. Fotheringham-Parker Alvis

8 - W.E. Humphreys Amilcar

9 - G.K. Marriott Frazer-Nash

10 - A. Bevan Bentley

11 - V. Gillow Riley

12 - T.G. Clarke Lea-Francis

14 - J.A. Robinson Bugatti (reserve entry)

15 - Oliver Bertram Vauxhall

16 - W.G. Fiske Alvis (reserve entry)

17 - I.M.C. Hepburn MG

18 - E.C.H. Randall Austin

 

Race 2 ("About 2 3/4 miles") - THE FIRST AUGUST ONE-LAP SPRINT HANDICAP - "Railway Start..."

 

No 1 - E.L. Bouts Sunbeam

2 - Mrs E.L. Meeson Vauxhall

3 - R.J. Munday Vauxhall

4 - Jack Dunfee Ballot

5 - T.H. Wisdom Frazer-Nash (reserve)

6 - J.A. Welch Bugatti

7 - J.H. Bartlett Salmson

8 - A.H. Beadle Bugatti (reserve)

9 - W.G. Fiske Alvis (reserve)

10 - A.L Baker Salmson

11 - V.S. Balls Austin

12 R. Pauling Riley (reserve)

14 - I.M.C. Hepburn MG

 

Race 3 ("About 6 1/2 miles)" - THE LONDON LIGHTNING SHORT HANDICAP - "Pond Start"

 

No 1 - K.J. Thomson Delage

2 - E.L. Bouts Sunbeam (reserve)

3 - T.G.V. Selby Bugatti

4 - Mrs E.L. Meeson Vauxhall

5 - R.J. Munday Vauxhall

6 - D.G. Evans Bugatti

7 - A.W. Fox Talbot

8 - L.C. Rawlence OM

9 - H.W. Purdy Thomas Special (reserve)

10 - J.R. Jeffress Bugatti

11 - W.J.F.S. Wilson Sunbeam

12 - A. Bevan Bentley (reserve)

14 - J.H. Bartlett Salmson 

 

Race 4 ("About 6 1/2 miles") - LONDON JUNIOR SHORT HANDICAP - "Pond Start"

 

No 1 - E.L. Bouts Sunbeam (reserve)

2 - J.A. Welch Bugatti

3 - A.F. Ashby Riley

4 - Oliver Bertram Vauxhall

5 - H.T.H. Clayton Amilcar

6 - W.E. Humphreys Amilcar

7 - Sir Herbert Austin Austin (entered by L. Cushman)

8 - G.D.M. Blackwood Vauxhall

9 - W.N. Couper Lagonda

10 - V.S. Balls Talbot

11 - J.W.H. Nash Riley

12 - E.N. Ward Riley

14 - V.S. Balls Austin

15 - G.L Baker Minerva

16 - G.G.L. Willis B.C. Special

17 - J.H.P. Clover MG (reserve)

18 - Major A.T.G. Gardner MG

19 - V.E. Horsman Triumph

 

Race 5 ("About 12 miles") - THE SECOND AUGUST MOUNTAIN HANDICAP - "Start and finish opposite the Paddock..."

 

No 1 - Sir H.R.S. Birkin, Bt Maserati

2 - W.B. Scott Delage

3 - Sir R.F. Gunter Bt Mercedes (reserve)

4 - R. Mays Invicta

5 - A.W. Fox Talbot

6 - T.H. Wisdom Frazer-Nash 

7 - J.H. Bartlett Salmson 

8 - W.M. Couper Lagonda

9 - W.J.F.S. Wilson Sunbeam

10 - J.R. Jeffress Bugatti

11 - D.G. Evans Bugatti

12 - R.T. Horton Horton Special

14 - V.S. Balls Austin

15 - F. Hallam Lagonda

16 - W.A. Cuthbert Lagonda

17 - T.S. Fothringham Bugatti

 

Race 6 ("About 2 3/4 miles") - THE SECOND AUGUST ONE-LAP SPRINT HANDICAP - "Railway Start..."

 

No 1 - K.J. Thomson Delage

2 - W.B. Scott Delage

3 - E.L. Bouts Sunbeam 

4 - C. Brackenbury Bugatti

5 - T..S. Fothringham Bugatti (reserve)

6 - R.T. Horton Horton Special (reserve)

7 - L.C. Rawlence OM (reserve)

8 - Sir Herbert Austin (entered by L.A. Cushman)

9 - W.E. Humphreys Amilcar

10 - P. Fotheringham Parker Alvis

11 - V. Gillow Riley

12 - F. Hallam Lagonda (reserve)

14 - G.G.L. Willis B.C. Special

 

Race 7 ("About 9 miles") - THE LONDON JUNIOR LONG HANDICAP - "Pond Start..."

 

No 1 - W.J.F.S. Wilson Sunbeam

2 - C. Brackenbury Bugatti

3 - A.Bevan Bentley

4 - E.J.J. Leatham Lea-Francis

5 - J.A. Welch Bugatti

6 - A.H. Beadle Bugatti (reserve)

7 - W.E. Humphreys Amilcar

8 -  H.T.H. Clayton Amilcar

9 - W.G. Fiske Alvis (reserve)

10 - Sir Herbert Austin (entered by L. Cushman)

11 - V.S. Balls Talbot

12 - G.D.M. Blackwood Vauxhall

14 - W.M. Couper Lagonda

15 - Frank Hallam Lagonda (reserve)

16 - G.L. Baker Minerva

17 - G.G.L. Willis B.C. Special

18 - J.H.P. Clover MG 

19 - Major A.T.G. Gardner MG

20 - V.E. Horsman Triumph

 

4.25pm Attempts on the Brooklands Flying Lap Record

Mrs G.M. Stewart Derby-Miller

Captain Sir H.R.S.Birkin, Bart. Bentley

 

Race 8 ("About 12 miles") - THE THIRD AUGUST MOUNTAIN HANDICAP - "Start and finish opposite the Paddock..."

 

 

No 1 - W.K. Faulkner Bugatti

2 - W.G. Fiske Alvis

3 - W. Esplen Talbot

4 - J.C. Davies Mercedes

5 - W.W. Straight Riley

6 - R. Pauling Riley

7 - W.A. Cuthbert Riley

8 - E.N. Ward Riley

9 - I.M.C. Hepburn MG

10 - G.G.L. Willis B.C. Special

11 - N.W. Gardiner MG

12 - C.A. Paul Austin

14 - E.C.H. Randall Austin

15 - R.S.L. Boote Austin

16 - C.L. Guiver Salmson

 

Race 9 ("About 9 miles)" - THE LONDON LIGHTNING LONG HANDICAP - "Pond Start..."

 

No 1 - K.J. Thomson Delage

2 - The Hon D.W. Paget Bentley (entered by Sir H.R.S. Birkin, Bt)

3 - E.L. Bouts Sunbeam 

4 - W.B. Scott Delage

5 - E.L. Bouts Sunbeam (sic)

6 - T.V.G. Selby Bugatti

7 - Mrs E.L. Meeson Vauxhall

8 - A.W. Fox Talbot

9 - H.W. Purdy Thomas Special

10 - Jack Dunfee Ballot (reserve)

11 - J.R. Jeffress Bugatti

12 - J.L. Ford Bugatti (reserve)

 

Race 10 ("About 2 1/2 miles") - THE 'DAILY SKETCH' OLD CROCKS RACE - "Paddock Start and Finish..."

 

32 entries ranging in date from 1894 and 1896 Benzes, through 1897 Vipen and several 1898 Panhard Levassors to 1903 Mercedes and 1904 Panhard Levassor, White steam car, Renault (claimed to have covered 300,000 miles in same family from new), a l'Astor ("used as light lorry"), while an 1899 Progress Voiturette was noted since "Rats lived in car for 22 years").

 

Digest the above and it tells us an awful lot about Great Depression-era Brooklands and its form of racing - and also of racing people - halfway between the end of the First World War and the outbreak of the Second.

 

DCN

[marksixman]

Blimey Doug, you must have had a quiet evening !!  Does that get the record for the longest post (without pictures) ever ??!!

[Doug Nye]

Ho hum - no problem...and no, I am confident it is not the longest ever...

 

DCN

Edited by Doug Nye, 02 December 2023 - 17:36.