We recently had a query about a Dellow with the registration number KMB300 which is not listed on the Dellow Register. After some prolonged correspondence the enquirer managed to get some photographs scanned and e-mailed to us. It became immediately obvious from these photographs that it probably wasn't a Dellow.
But there are some odd looking Dellows around and before I write it off, I thought it would be a good idea to seek opinions. Could you post it on Classical Gas please?
Dave Haley
This is the 1937 LMB Ford built by Leslie Ballamy and incorporating his split front beam swing axle suspension system. This car is still very much on the scene and you can see it regularly competing at VSCC events but nowadays restricted to tarmac, ie.e speed hillclimbs, racing, rallies etc. I do recall it making an appearance on the Clee Hills trial, I think that would be the first of the current series organised by MAC.
ReplyDeleteGoogle came up with this when I searched on KMB300, had to trawl through a couple of pages of breadmaker results, but I am the man who reads more than one page of their google search results.
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Taken at Prescott 24 May 2009:
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and I have a couple more (Paddock shots again) from VSCC Prescott 2009 if anyone's interested.
Prompted by Davids post I looked out my copy of "Out in Front - The Leslie Ballamy Story". On page 52 I see that the car was built by Leslie Ballamy in 1937 for H. G. Symmons and was originally registered GMD 1.
ReplyDeleteAfter the war it was owned by Reg Holt. In the book it says the current owner is Mark Brett.
Here is the Ballamy V8 at a VSCC Curborough Sprint. The front looks spot on, but the rear end looks different
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At the risk of being boring here it is again at Shelsley Walsh in July 2006. You can see the rear end more clearly on this view, and it matches Michael's Photos.
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Oh well, thats this year's Christmas quiz b*gg*r*d up then :)
ReplyDeleteWhat sections where the photos taken though?
ReplyDeleteCowlow is my "best guess" for the upper photo - the width of the section, the stone walls and the lie of the land look very much like the first tight left-hander - but I've no idea about the lower photo, although the location is very distinctive and I'm sure someone must recognise it. I have contact details for the "enquirer" who sent the photos to Dave Haley so we may get an answer.
ReplyDeletePS - They look like different passengers (I can't see a number on the upper photo), and therefore different events, so if I'm right about Cowlow that doesn't necessarily mean that the lower photo is also in the Peak District.
Don't worry Simon thanks to Robin Barlow I have a couple of great ones lined up for the festive season.
ReplyDeleteI believe the watersplash photo may have been taken at West End a favourite section on the Ilkley and Scott trials during the nineteen twenties and thirties. Subsequently submerged by the flooding of Thruscross reservoir. Perhaps the Ilkley boys can comment?
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