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Paddy Naismith pushing her car onto the track for the 1933 Brooklands Whit Monday event.

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Gwenda Stewart in 1935. She took the ultimate Ladies Outer Circuit lap record at 135.95 mph.

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L to R Gwenda Stewart, Doreen Evans, Kay Petre, Elsie Wisdom, September 1935.

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Mrs Gordon Simpson and Joan Richmond enjoying fags in the latter’s 1921 3-litre GP Ballot racer, July 1934.

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Elsie “Bill†Wisdom confounded the Brooklands Automobile Racing Club sceptics to master the unpredictable 7.2-litre Leyland-Thomas by winning Britain’s first 1,000 mile race at an average speed of 84.41mph, partnered by Joan Richmond, in 1930.

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“Bill†Wisdom and Joan Richmond, July 1932, in what I believe is an Aston Martin 1.5 Ulster.

I stand corrected if it isn't one.

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These are the three MGs that were entered for Le Mans by land speed record breaker George Eyston. The entry was nicknamed the ‘Dancing Daughters’, after a popular variety act of the time. 

The drivers were : Car 54 – Margaret Allen & Coleen Eaton, Car 55 – Doreen Evans & Barbara Skinner, Car 56 – Joan Richmond & Miss Joan Simpson. July 1935.

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Kay Petre with her V12 Delage, in 1937.

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Kay Petre at Brooklands, March 1938. It was the first time at Brooklands since a terrible accident the previous September. During practice for the 500 Mile race, the driver Reg Parnell misjudged an overtaking move, lost speed, slid down the banking and hit her Austin Seven from behind. She crashed badly and was seriously injured and she never raced competitively again. Years later Petre ended up designing fabric patterns for the interior of the Mini and was a motoring journalist. She died in 1994, at the age of ninety-one.

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Ewy Rosqvist von Korff and Eva-Maria Falk with their fintailshite at the "Touring Car Grand Prix of Argentina", 28 October - 7 November 1964.

They finished 3rd overall.

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Baronesse von Korff and Miss Falk. A threesome would have been taken into consideration, lemme tellyas...

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Baronesse Ewy and Ursula Wirth (the wife of my father's boss back then) in the process of winning the '63 Monte Ladies Cup.

Like Eugen Böhringer, they had to hire the Benz works racers. You read right. Due to German federal tax laws, driving a road registered factory car was considered a monetary advantage and thus liable to income tax. The workaround was, that the drivers signed a car hire contract with the factory. The hire cost was 1 Deutschmark per event.

 

Note the cut away bumper overriders to make space for the driving lights. Good replacements will set you back 200 quid a toss today.

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This is Eugen Böhringer, likely lending advice to the ladies at the '64 Argentinian GP. He went on to win the event with co-driver Klaus Kaiser

at an average of over 181 kph, no mean feat when one looks at the pics.

Second ahead of the ladies was Dieter Glemser and Martin Braungart, making this a 1-2-3 hat trick for Mercedes.

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The Böhringer/Kaiser car at a service during the event. Imagine that it might have just slowed down from 130 mph in 40 degree heat.

That's team director Karl Kling at the right.

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Glemser/Braungart at speed. And with speed, I mean 180+ metric clicks.

If this isn't stiffer upper lip stuff, then I would like to have the expression explained.

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Blimey, JM - Brooklands women and rallying Fintails.   Doesn't get much better.....

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London 1950 -

Bloody grim day even for a funeral

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Transit Van has a marker for killing Midget clown

 

 

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A three car crash on the Kingston By-Pass, 1939

 

 

Crashed cars in Finchley Road, north London. . May 1924

 

Six holiday-makers were taken to hospital, along with the driver of the coach, after being involved in a triple crash between this car, the coach and another bus in Islington.5th August 1952

 

 

A car hangs precariously over the basement of Canada House in Trafalgar Square, having crashed through the railings 1939

 

 

A policeman views a car crashed into a traffic island outside Buckingham Palace.1939

 

 

A crowd of spectators in Stepney Green, east London, with one of the two cars which were involved in a crash there, killing two men and injuring a third.August 1926

 

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1932 London car show

 

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A Peugeot motorboat car, in Britain 1925

 

Never seen one of these!

 

 

A Fulgar show-model car made by French car manufacturers, Simca. Designed for the year 2000 it is intended to be atomically powered, guided by radar and using only two wheels balanced by gyroscopes when driven at over 150 kph.

 

 

A submarine motor car, which can travel both on land and underwater and is equipped with a 4 hp engine and steel fins on both sides.

 

 

Swiss engineer M. Gerder at Arles, France on his way to Spain in his “Motorwheelâ€Â, a motorcycle with a wheel which runs on a rail placed inside a solid rubber tyre.

 

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