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[Gregor Marshall]

Whilst going through old magazines and trophies I have found accronyms/abbreviations for motor clubs that I'd not heard before. I have done some digging but there are still a few that I have no idea about and I wondered if some of our learned friends on here could help out?? If it helps they are from the mid '60s up to the late '90s and are for either race or sprint events and I can provide dates too.
Here is the list (my thoughts in brackets):-

RECC (Romford Enthusiast Car Club)
SCC
WMRMCMS
CCH (Chiltern Circle and Harrow Car Club)
SMRMC
CUAC
ESMC (East Surrey Motor Club)
LMC (London Motor Club)
MMMC (Maidstone and Mid-Kent Motor Club)
SODG
SODC
GM
CVMC
MCMRC
CCC
S&CMC
MSAC
TEAC (Thames Estuary?)
RMC
CKMC (County Kildare Motor Club)
BHRC
HARA
BRMRMC

[RS2000]

SCC Sporting Car Club?
CUAC Cambridge University Automoblie Club
SODC Sporting Owner Drivers Club
CVMC Chess Valley Motor Club
CCC Coalville Car Club?
S&CMC Sutton & Cheam Motor Club
MSAC Mid Surrey Auto Club
TEAC Thames Estuary Auto Club
BRMRMC? BMRMC is British Motor Racing Marshalls Club

One or two others could be more than one possibility.

[Vitesse2]

CUAC - Cambridge University Automobile Club?

TEAC - Thames Estuary Automobile Club, as you guessed, Gregor. LMC is London too.

And surely the last one ought to be BMRMC? In which case it's the British Motor Racing Marshals Club.

I'm sure those more familiar with clubbies can fill in the rest ;)

[MCS]

MCMRC is the Mid-Cheshire Motor Racing Club.

Gregor, you might find this useful http://www.ukmotorsp...m/uk_clubs.html

[RS2000]

RMC There is a Riley Motor Club but I can't recall it promoting competitive events.

[Gregor Marshall]

Originally posted by MCS
MCMRC is the Mid-Cheshire Motor Racing Club.

Gregor, you might find this useful http://www.ukmotorsp...m/uk_clubs.html

MCMRC adds up, 1970 Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park, thank you.

That link is great thanks, the majority of these are from the 60s and possibly not around anymore but with that and the other answers I seem to be getting there.

[Gregor Marshall]

Originally posted by Vitesse2
CUAC - Cambridge University Automobile Club?

TEAC - Thames Estuary Automobile Club, as you guessed, Gregor. LMC is London too.

And surely the last one ought to be BMRMC? In which case it's the British Motor Racing Marshals Club.

I'm sure those more familiar with clubbies can fill in the rest ;)

That's great and I'd agree with those, thanks, getting there!!

I wonder if the BMRMC used to be called something else, hence BRMRMC maybe British Racing Marshals Motor Club or something?

[Gregor Marshall]

Originally posted by RS2000
RMC There is a Riley Motor Club but I can't recall it promoting competitive events.

RMC is for several Saloon Car races (I don't know what sort though) all at Brands Hatch in the mid-70s. What about Romford Motor Club maybe, was/is there such a thing?

[RS2000]

RMC Rochester Motor Club?

BHRC Brands Hatch Racing Club?

SODG Something - Singer? Sunbeam? - Owner Drivers Group?

[Gregor Marshall]

Originally posted by RS2000
SODC Sporting Owner Drivers Club
CVMC Chess Valley Motor Club
CCC Coalville Car Club?
S&CMC Sutton & Cheam Motor Club
MSAC Mid Surrey Auto Club
TEAC Thames Estuary Auto Club
BRMRMC? BMRMC is British Motor Racing Marshalls Club

One or two others could be more than one possibility.

CVMC comes from an Autocross in 1968 (CVMC Valvoline Trophy, 2nd in class D2). I've not heard of Chess Valley before; do you think that might add up?
S&CMC I have from a 1972 trophy that also says Darenth? I know Darenth isn't far from Brands Hatch, so maybe a race/sprint from Brands?
CCC is from two trophies for Sprints at Duxford in 1971 so not sure on that. Bit of a long shot but I wonder if maybe it is the traditional CCC, Car and Car Conversions; maybe they sponsored some Sprints?
A bit of a shot in the dark, would MSAC and TEAC run events together? I have a couple of Special Saloon races from Brands in the mid '70s (MSAC TEAC Special Saloons over 1,000cc).

Thanks for the other bits, brilliant.

[Gregor Marshall]

Originally posted by RS2000
RMC Rochester Motor Club?

BHRC Brands Hatch Racing Club?

Rochester Motor Club - Maybe, sounds good!! I have some trophies from Rochester and Tunbridge Wells Motor Club from the same time, so must be the same??

Brands Hatch Racing Club - Perfect, thank you. The trophy is from Brands and the full name is the "BHRC Kentagon Sprint" so must be right.

[RS2000]

CCH is a new one on me. Maybe an amalgam of Chiltern Car Club and Harrow Car Club?
Chess Valley (Hertfordshire?) autocross sounds right - I may even have been there!
Sutton and Cheam I'm sure could be nothing else. Still runnning sprints (Abingdon, Longcross).
If Duxford, CCC likely to be Cambridge Car Club?

[Gregor Marshall]

Originally posted by RS2000
SODG Something - Singer? Sunbeam? - Owner Drivers Group?

These are all from Woburn Hillclimb 66 & 67 and I would have thought from driving a Lotus Elan or TVR Griffith.

[Mark A]

RMC - Rugby Motor Club?

there is certainly a Rugby Motor Club as I've done some of their events in the past.

[Gregor Marshall]

Originally posted by Gregor Marshall
I wonder if the BMRMC used to be called something else, hence BRMRMC maybe British Racing Marshals Motor Club or something?

If it helps the full title for this one is "BRMRMC Lew Worcester Trophy"

[RS2000]

Woburn I'm fairly sure means it's a misprint - Sporting Owner Drivers Club

Edit: Confirmed by Chris Mason's "Uphill Racers" - SODC promoted Woburn

[Gregor Marshall]

Originally posted by RS2000
Woburn I'm fairly sure means it's a misprint - Sporting Owner Drivers Club

Edit: Confirmed by Chris Mason's "Uphill Racers" - SODC promoted Woburn

Brilliant, thank you. I'm not sure what my Dad was driving there but he got eight trophies from them!!

[RS2000]

http://rochestermc.c...story/index.htm
I would think that confirms RMC

I also think BMRMC did change its name-but I cant make anything fit the other letters.

[RS2000]

Duxford was I think a round of the British Sprint Championship at one time, Steve Wilkinson on here may be able to confirm Cambridge Car Club ran that.

HARA doesn't sound a racing or sprint promoting club. "? ? Racing Association" might possibly be drag racing?

[Stephen W]

Originally posted by RS2000
Duxford was I think a round of the British Sprint Championship at one time, Steve Wilkinson on here may be able to confirm Cambridge Car Club ran that.

Correct!

[Gregor Marshall]

Originally posted by Stephen W


Correct!

Brilliant, thanks guys.

[Gregor Marshall]

Originally posted by RS2000
HARA doesn't sound a racing or sprint promoting club. "? ? Racing Association" might possibly be drag racing?

Definitely racing, from 1994 and was the HARA Trans Am Challenge Race, two of them, May and June both at Brands Hatch (I think I remember one of them in a big white and blue 70s Corvette with 700ish bhp!!).

[Gregor Marshall]

Originally posted by RS2000
http://rochestermc.c...story/index.htm
I would think that confirms RMC

I also think BMRMC did change its name-but I cant make anything fit the other letters.

That's great, just had a quick read through it. I'll drop them an e-mail as I can't see anything about Tunbridge Wells ever being in the name and I definitely have two trophies with Rochester and Tunbridge Wells Motor Club as well as differant trophies with RMC on them, so I will check just to quell my mind!!

[Allan Lupton]

CVMC would be Chess Valley (still extant I think)
CCC there was a Circle Car Club and your guess of CCH (Chiltern Circle and Harrow Car Club) named it along with Chiltern and Harrow. However I think Chiltern was a CC not a MC so could be that. Cambridge CC more likely at Duxford, of course but it just goes to show. . .
Agree that the SODs ran Woburn H/C and that SODG would be a misprint
Agree RMC more likely Rochester than Riley

[Alan Cox]

From my very limited (verging on non-existent) knowledge of drag racing, HARA (Hanau Auto Racing Association) used to run meetings at Santa Pod. Did they promote that short-lived series for US saloons which featured the likes of Barry Lee?

[bradbury west]

I always thought it was
Rochester and District Motor Club and Romford Enthusiasts' Car Club, but that goes back to 1965 to 1974, plus there was Rochester and Sevenoaks Motor Club, taken from programmes and race reports.
Roger Lund

[sterling49]

Originally posted by Gregor Marshall
[B]Whilst going through old magazines and trophies I have found accronyms/abbreviations for motor clubs that I'd not heard before. I have done some digging but there are still a few that I have no idea about and I wondered if some of our learned friends on here could help out?? If it helps they are from the mid '60s up to the late '90s and are for either race or sprint events and I can provide dates too.
Here is the list (my thoughts in brackets):-

SCC Southern Car Club or if letters missing SCCON Sporting Car Club of Norfolk
TEAC (Thames Estuary?) Thames Estuary Auto Club
RMC Rochester Motor Club

They used to roll of the tongue so easily, now I cannot even remember the initials!

[RS2000]

I think some of the confusion is over jointly-promoted meetings, where the awards may carry an abbreviated version of two or even three clubs. Eg. Sevenoaks and District Motor Club was always a separate club but might have co-promoted races with Rochester Motor Club at Brands. Tunbridge Wells MC I think has always been separate but would have co-promoted (and still does for sprints at Lydden?) with other clubs.
The Rally of Kent (not to be confused with the Kent Rally!) is a joint promotion by BexleyLCC, Maidstone&MKMC and Sevenoaks&DMC.
The Sunseeker National Championship Rally is formally a co-promotion by Southern CC and Croydon &DMC (although some might also presume a commercial operation by Xenegomy Plc...)
SCC may well be Southern CC - although I couldn't place it as a circuit race-promoting club, which is why I was thinking of SCCON and Snetterton.

[sterling49]

Originally posted by RS2000
ISevenoaks&DMC.

or simply 7 Oaks M.C.

[RS2000]

Originally posted by sterling49

or simply 7 Oaks M.C.

Its been 2 or 3 Oaks since October 87 hasn't it?

[sterling49]

a minor detail, although correct! It doesn't have quite the same ring to it

[Gregor Marshall]

Think I'm getting more confused now!!

I wonder if on some of the tophies the amalgamated the club initials to save on engraving costs??

[Stephen W]

Originally posted by Gregor Marshall
Think I'm getting more confused now!!

I wonder if on some of the tophies the amalgamated the club initials to save on engraving costs??

They certainly went for initials rather than full names of clubs. I have several trophies bought off EBAY which nearly all just feature the club's initials (e.g. S&HMC rather than Sheffield and Hallamshire Motor Club).
Another cost cutter was to fix an enamel badge of the club onto the trophy; these were bought by the hundred and were relatively inexpensive.