Date:1903 - 1905 (c.)
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.
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The start of the Gordon Bennett Eliminating Trials held on the Isle of Man. Car No.1 was a Star driven ...
The start of the Gordon Bennett Eliminating Trials held on the Isle of Man. The car with the registration ...
The start of the Gordon Bennett Eliminating Trials held on the Isle of Man. No 3 is a Weir-Darracq. ...
The start of the Gordon Bennett Eliminating Trials held on the Isle of Man. No.4 was a Wolseley race ...
The start of the Gordon Bennett Eliminating Trials held on the Isle of Man. No.6 was a Napier driven ...
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Donor ref:D7414-1-5 (201/46117)
Source: Staffordshire County Record Office
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