Description:The start of the Gordon Bennett Eliminating Trials held on the Isle of Man. The car with the registration number AY-172 marked number 2 was a 1905 Star driven by H G Goodwin, and No.1 was also a Star driven by F R Goodwin. One of these cars survives and was imported as a Mercedes from India some years ago. It is now fully restored.
This is one of a set of photographs belonging to Mr F A Bolton, of Moorcourt, Oakamoor, who was the younger son of Mr Alfred Sohier Bolton, of Thomas Bolton & Sons Ltd, copper smelters, etc., of Oakamoor. His elder brother, Thomas, lived across the valley, at Light Oaks.