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1st ever meeting at Mallory Park
This photograph is of the grid for the 1st race at the 1st ever meeting at Mallory Park on Whit Monday May 21st 1956.
Does anyone please have a programme for this event. I am trying to identify if car number 10 on the left is a Rochdale ST or a Bonglass and who was the driver? Also the programme may help me identify the make of car on the very right of the grid. Thank you, Tony Stanton - Rochdale Olympic History Archive. |
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8 John Bekaert Lotus VI 1172
15 John Mitchell Ford 18 Dick Crosfield Lotus VI 1098 10 D Wostenholme Ford 1172 Special |
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Dick Crosfield was a well known engineer and engine man from the Dewsbury area if memory serves me well. |
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Thank you for the information on car 10, this is new information for the Rochdale Owners Club. In the mid 1950s Denys Wostenholme along with Harry Smith and Frank Butterworth were the directors of Rochdale Motor Panels, but we did not know Denys had raced a Rochdale ST. Regards, Tony. (ps I have sent you a message.) |
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Looks like a big crowd even for a BH meeting. Especially as it was the first meeting.
Social media must have been very successful back then .... |
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Tony, I'm sure you already know that Alex McMillan was 4th in the 1.2 litre sports car race at that first Mallory meeting, in Elva Climax MBU309 with a Rochdale F-type body.
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