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Newspaper clipping from The Sunday Times reporting on a motor race.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 90a\3\ Scan174 | |
| Date | 8th September 1935 | |
| THE SUNDAY TIMES, SEPTEMBER 8, 1935 AN AMAZING COINCIDENCE Sammy Davis's car left the road at almost the same spot at Bradshaw's Brae as Langley's had done earlier, leapt over the hedge in exactly the same place, and landed right on top of the other damaged Singer which was lying in the field. Davis was shaken, but otherwise unhurt. The beautifully finished blue Aston-Martin driven by Prince Birabongse of Siam ("Bira") had to retire with a broken oil pipe. Other Aston-Martins had similar trouble and at one time four of them were at the pits together. DIXON'S NEW RECORD Dixon was going all out to hold his lead, and on his twenty-eighth lap he broke the Class F lap record with time of 10 min. 19 sec.—an average speed of practically 80 miles an hour. Confusion was caused when a horse suddenly appeared in the road near Dundonald and galloped round the course for about a mile. Four drivers had to be flagged to warn them of the unexpected danger ahead. A pit stop by Hindmarsh let Hall's Bentley into second place, with the surviving Aston-Martins second and third and Earl Howe in the first six. All the German Adlers were out of it, the last remaining Singer was withdrawn and the dropping out of a Fiat left the Aston-Martin No. 1 team (Brackenbury, Renn-Hughes and Rose-Richards) the only team in the running. Overtaking the Aston-Martins on handicap Earl Howe ran into third place behind Dixon and Hall and the order was maintained to the finish. Three of the five M.G. Magnettes in the race were fitted with radio, and by means of head phones the drivers, Denis Evans, his brother Kenneth, and R.{Sir Henry Royce} J.{Mr Johnson W.M.} B. Seaman, listened to the instructions of their pit manager, who broadcast from a microphone in the pit. | ||