Social media just keeps giving and giving. This time enthusiast Russell Garth has posted some great ’56 AGP colour shots taken by the late Ian Curwen-Walker at Albert Park on Bob Williamson’s Old Motor Racing Photographs Australia Facebook page.
Sometimes I’ve got so many different articles on the same topic I’m confusing myself – not that is difficult to do I might add – so rather than start another ’56 AGP piece I’ve added the shots to this existing article; https://primotipo.com/2018/01/16/james-linehams-1956-agp-albert-park/
The photograph above is Paul England’s Ausca Holden-Repco which contested the 25 November, 34 lap, 100 mile Australian Tourist Trophy. He was 12th outright and second in class, in the car he and Bill Hickey built after hours at Repco Research’ Sydney Road, Brunswick premises on the other side of town. The flash of blue to the right is the Norman Hamilton owned Porsche 550 Spyder driven that weekend by Otto Stone, lasting only one lap. Otto would have been a busy boy that fortnight, looking after Stan Jones’ 250F, or was he preparing it at that early stage?
Tony Johns tells me the “bloke (with his back to us) in the white overalls with the fag is Norman Hamilton,” who created the Porsche Cars Australia empire in Australia, famously the first Porsche importer/dealer outside Europe.
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Ian Curwen-Walker via Russell Garth
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Mark,
My understanding was Stan Jones principal Maserati 250F mechanic from June 1956 – December 1956 was Englishman Peter Powell who Stan bought out to Australia to “Wring The Best” out of Stans recently imported 250F : Peter Powell was on hand when Stan bettered Reg Hunt’s Easter 1956 record by recording 148 MPH on the Flying Quarter Mile & clocked 2 minutes 44:9 seconds : almost 4 seconds faster than Reg Hunt had recorded in his Maserati 250F at the Easter 1956 Bathurst meeting : Otto Stone began working for Stan Jones on his Maserati 250F in 1957 after Reg Hunt had retired from motor racing : D.Z.
My previous comment was referring to the October 1956 Bathurst N.S.W Road Racing Championship event where Stan Jones bettered Reg Hunts record from March 1956 where Peter Powell was Stan Jones principal mechanic on Stans Maserati 250F : Chassis #2520 : D.Z.
Thanks David,
I’ve not heard of Mr Powell, that’s interesting. I had a vague notion that the Repco Research boys looked after the 250F when it first arrived. I wonder what Mr Powell’s CV was in the UK?
Mark