Falcon Members:-
256 Fred Gregory and Peter Stafford (Dutton Melos) (7) - Failed Pindale and Hucklow
268 Jonathon Baggott and Ian Banton (Marlin) (7) - Retired after Excelsior
Others:-
Barry Clarke retired his Austin 7 on the track after Hucklow with a dead battery. He was hoping to limp to his hotel using only dynamo power.
Derek Chatto (Cannon) Winner of JTP cup
Andrew Brown (Marlin)- Failed Litton and Hucklow.
Adrian T-P (Peugeot) failed Litton and Bamford
W. J. Bennett (MG J2) won class 2
David Heale (Escort estate) won class 3
Terry Ball won class 6 but then he was the only starter!
Roger Ugalde won class 7 in that wonderful Allard
Pete and Carlie Hart won a Gold in their Marlin
In the bikes John lees won Class A
As I compile the ACTC Trials Section Database, I come across Sections that have been known by more than one name so I thought I'd share this information with you all and see if anyone knows any others:
Historic Names
- Today's Calton was known PreWar as Taddington Moor.
- Today's Corkscrew was known PreWar as Jenkins Chapel.
- Today's Crooked Mustard was known PreWar as Breakheart.
- Today's Darracott was known for the 1933 Lands End only as Gooseham.
- Today's Swan Rake was known as Hollinsclough until 1937.
- Today's Travers was previously known as Ubley Drove.
- Today's John Walker was previously known as Hall Lane.
Duplicated Names
- Bidgood Lane (Silverton) = Port Lane (Minehead).
- Bray Hill (Holsworthy) = High Bray (North Devon).
- Crackington (MCC) = Mineshop (Launceston).
- Higher Gabwell (MCC) = Higher Shells (Torbay).
- Rocky Thomas (MCC) = Milltown (Camel Vale).
- Upper Dean (MCC) = Lower Dean (Torbay) - strange but true, I think. Can anyone confirm?
Any others?
Andrew
Now that the collective knowledge of the wired Trials Community has solved the 'Jenkins Chapel puzzle', it's time to start the next piece of historical research. So here goes ...
Not many competitors in the Lands End, descending the steep hair-pinned road to the start of Treworld, know that they are actually descending New Mill, a famous Pre-War hill included in both the 1938 and 1939 Lands End. There are good photographs of the foot of New Mill, all taken on the 1938 Lands End, on Page 70 of Peter Garnier's history of the MCC (although this is incorrectly captioned as 1937), Page 53 of Roger Thomas' history of MG Trials Cars, and Page 121 of Donald Cowbourne's mega-tome British Trials Drivers, Their Cars and Awards.
However, what really interests me is another sequence of photographs referring to New Mill which is clearly not the same hill. These, all apparently taken on the same event (and definitely not the Lands End), appear on Page 48 of Roger Thomas' book, and Pages 122 and 156 of the large-format book The Golden Age of British Motoring by Roy Bacon with photos by Bill Brunell. They can't be before 1937 as two of the photographs show Musketeer team MG cars from that year (ABL 961 and JB 9445).
I've checked the trial numbers against the lists in Donald Cowbourne's book and they don't match any of the major events listed so the pictures must have been taken on another trial, albeit one of sufficient importance to warrant an entry by the MG Team. Unfortunately I don't have the facilities to scan the photographs easily but, hopefully, there may be someone out there who has the books and recognizes the hill. All information will be gratefully received and, when we've solved this mystery, I'll move on to my next 'where is it' conundrum!
Thanks in anticipation.
Andrew
The start of the season started off with some very wet events, and generally conditions have been getting drier and drier.
The largest battle for class honers has been in Class A, for non-ballasted fwd cars. Nick Pollitt and Simon Harris (Golf Gti's) and Barrie Parker (Pug 104), have all won the class and events. Barrie won the MSA championship at the Owen, a few weeks ago. Nick and Simon took second and third in the championship. The class has been very popular throughout the year, and Mike and Duncan Stephens have been doing some events in Neil Mackay's old Nova, a very competitive car. Shame about the drivers!!! There have been battles for class position all year. Jeff Buchanen (Nova) has won the class award.
The Loughborough Youth Squad, have been a very welcome inclusion at three events, and were getting the hand of it. At there own event one of them was third in class at lunch (out of about 15), but fell back as it got tighter. Very comendable nonetheless.
Class B has kind of lost compititors through the year, as it appears that the way forward in fwd is in class A. The Clarke's and Lane's have done some events though, and won the class on each time out.
Class C, rwd generally, has been ultra competitive all year, apart from when Bill and Alistair Moffatt in a 915cc Imp come out!! It has been very tight between Malcolm Brown (Westfield), Steve Courts (Imp), Duncan and Mike Stephens (1302s beetle) and Matt Barker (Skoda). Different conditions have suited different cars, but competition has been very close. Duncan Stephens has managed to tie up the class award in the MSA, due to Bill Moffatt not entering!
Class D, kitcars etc., has been strugling for entries in the latter half of the year, but that has not stopped Jack Williams dominating the class in his umbelievable Tempest.
The BTRDA gold star will be decided on the 17th October, at the championship final. Marshalls would be very welcome, as always. It is being run by Owen MC at there usual site. MR will follow!! The silver star is between Nick Pollitt and Jack Williams, and the Bronze is probably nearly in Malcolm Brown's hands already.
Dunca
hanks for your message , yes I had spotted it ,but feel a little out of
place, being a motorcycle intruder! had a sort of enjoyable Edinburgh , don't
know how well I did at the restart at Haggside, ran back off the edge with
the back wheel both locked but there was no flag and he was counting!!! very
strange, got away OK so might be a Triple. Great Hucklow horrific on a 500lb
1961 Triumph ,needs to go up sections fairly quickly but this was not
possible here, leapt from rock to rock and ended up at the top OK.
Cheers, John Lees.
Michael -
Looks great (so far) but, at present, I'm finding it totally impossible to
get my 'Passport' and join. I'll keep trying! ... and ... How do you find
the time to do all this??
I assume that the Trial was 'cut short' as per the Route Card - I was
running #146 and we did Putwell 2 as did everyone that finished around the
same time. The early delays at Excelsior were due to the petrol problem plus
a large number of the bikes then failing (or so I believe - we certainly saw
quite a few whilst we were waiting).
I failed the Litton Restart and Great Hucklow - the first driver
error/hesitation in selecting the right place to stop, the second bad luck
(or so the spectators said!) in clipping the most exposed rock at the
deviation with a front wheel that stopped the car dead and slewed me 90
degrees across the track. We exited up the failures route, parked, and
walked down to see how it should have been done - better luck next year!
Andrew
Hi,
Just got back from The Edinburgh. Personally I had a great time, failed Great Hucklow but otherwise managed to climb everything. There were quite a few delays. First the bikes couldn't find any fuel. Then there were a couple of problem hills. Last person signed off about 8pm.
I hope to post something on the site later this evening. However it will probably take me around a week to put together a fuyll report. What I will probably do is put the drafts as a message here first as it is much quicker to put stuff on thw Web Community than on the web site.
I am after as much Edinburgh info as possible and would welcome it either as a message posted here or as an e-mail to mleete@compuserve.com
Many thanks for participating.
Michael
