BUGATTI CAR QUERY

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Apart from knowing this is a Bugatti and the venue is Crystal Palce, other information is scarce. If any member can provide some details it would be much appreciated.

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From Motor Sport Magazine October 1967


On September 9th the B.A.R.C. Crystal Palace Meeting, sponsored by Holts, was quite an historic car occasion, because apart from the so-lap Historic Car Race for the Croydon Midweek Trophy, the B.A.R.C. had arranged a Cavalcade of Speed. The latter was led by the Montagu Motor Museum's Coupe de l'Auto Sunbeam and included most of the race competitors, plus Sir Ralph Millais' Sunbeam " Tiger," B.M.C.'s Brooklands Morris Oxford, Lake's ex-Woolf Barnato 3-litre Bentley with diminutive driver's headrest on its Jarvis body, Edinondson's Lagonda, Russ-Turner's Birkin Bentley, Townsend's ex-Kerr-Bate Riley-Amilcar and a sports A.C., etc. Agg's Derby-Maserati had a dragging clutch and failed to run.



The race was a scratch affair, which was hard on the pre-war cars. The lion. Patrick Lindsay, on the front row of the grid in company with Bill Morris' E.R.A. " Hanuman si " and Bertie Brown's C-type E.R.A., made no mistakes and pulled out a useful lead in his E.R.A. " Remus," although Morris had led on initial acceleration. Soon Lindsay was comfortably ahead, followed by Brown, with the irrepressible Bernard Kain third in his 1926 Bugatti—rather as at Silverstone. The two E.R.A.s pulled away after three laps, Rain remaining unchallenged in third place. Then came Morris', followed by Marsh's E.R.A., Beer's K3 M.G. and Freeman's Spa Aston Martin. Corner's Bugatti was next, until it stopped with suspected magneto trouble on lap 4, resuming three laps later, eventually to retire, misfiring. The order continued unchanged, until Freeman passed Beer on lap 5 Playford, in Richards' Type 51 Bugatti, was out on his own in Mercedes overalls and 8th place, for much of the race, until tailed by Gahagan, in an E.R.A. very well known at this circuit before the war,



except that it was then white and had a engine, closed up, who was duelling with Bergel's Type 351' Bugatti. That's how they finished, Brown acknowledging the chequered-flag by taking both hands off the wheel. Arriold-Forster's Delage ii" The 'forpedo " had stopped after a lap with fuel starvation and Bradley's I.Hitre G.P. Delage came in a lap from the finish, as did Marsh's E.R.A., the Delage having impeded 13ergel and Gahagan and also Moores' S/C S.V. Austin 7. Moores in the little Austin was lapped by the leading E.R.A.s three laps from the end, and Coles' J4 M.G. and the Semmence were very slow.



Lindsay had driven faultlessly, to win at 73.18 m.p.h., making fastest lap at 75.14 m.p.h. He led Brown home by nine seconds, received a garland, a silver tray and a kiss from Mrs. 'noddle, wife of the Editor of Croydon Midweek, and was soon on his way home in his Monza Alfa Romeo. His fastest lap was 5.33 m.p.h. quicker than the new Formula V lap-record set up in the very next race.