A Bill Daley photograph of Hawkesbury hill climb, circa 1948. How many of these cars ran in an Australian Grand Prix, is the question which pops into my mind? In the absence of a programme for the event, this classic study of racing cars taken at Hawkesbury Hillclimb has left the experts unable to identify […]
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Werrangourt Archive 14: Hawkesbury Hillclimb, by Bob King…
Posted: December 13, 2021 in Obscurities, Who,What,Where & When...?Tags: Australian Motor Racing History, Bud Luke, Frank Lyell, Hawkesbury Hillclimb, Ken Tubman, Tom Sulman
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Werrangourt Archive 5: Cars I Have Driven, by Bob King…
Posted: August 13, 2020 in F1, Sports RacersTags: 1914 GP Delage, 1914 GP Mercedes, 1922 GP Sunbeam, Bugatti Type 32, Bugatti Type 39, Bugatti Type 40, Ferrari 212E GTB, Ferrari 375MM, Frazer Nash TT Replica, Sulman Singer
Christian Lautenschlager descending the ‘le piege de la mort’ switchback, Mercedes 18/100 HP (4.48 litre straight-four), first in the July 1914 French Grand Prix run over a 752 km road course in a little over 7 hours 8 minutes. Mark suggested I write something on ten of the more interesting cars I have had the […]
Tom Sulman…
Posted: April 19, 2018 in Features, Who,What,Where & When...?Tags: Aston Martin DB3S, Australian Motor Racing History, Lotus 11 Climax, Maserati 4CM, Sulman Singer, Tom Sulman
Quintessential Australian racer/engineer Tom Sulman loads his Maserati 4CM after the second ‘Lady Wigram Trophy’, Wigram Airbase, New Zealand 23 February 1952… Tom Sulman was born in Sydney on 25 December 1899 and died in a tragic accident at Mount Panorama, Bathurst on 30 March 1970 aboard one of his Lotus 11 Climax’. He was the […]
Frank Kleinig, Kleinig Hudson Special…
Posted: December 6, 2019 in Features, ObscuritiesTags: EJ 'Joe' Buckley, Frank Kleinig, Hudson Terraplane, Kevin Salmon, Kirby Deering Special, Kleinig Hudson, Les Burrows, McIntyre Hudson, WA 'Gus' McIntyre
Frank Kleinig, awesome driver that he was, attacks Rob Roy Hillclimb, left front pawing the air in his self built Kleinig Hudson Spl, 1947… He won the Australian Hillclimb championship twice, at Rob Roy in 1948 and Hawkesbury in 1949, on both occasions at the wheel of this iconic and still extant Hudson straight-8 powered […]
Stay Behind The Fence for Chrissakes!…
Posted: February 11, 2020 in Fotos, Who,What,Where & When...?Tags: Autralian Motor Racing History, Bathurst, Bill Patterson, Cooper T51 Climax, Craven A International, Frank Hann, Gordon Stewart, Holden FJ, Horst Kwech, Jack Brabham, Jaguar Mk5, Leo Geoghegan, RM Spyder, Stewart MG
Leo Geoghegan’s Holden 48-215 from Frank Hamm’s Jaguar Mk5, Bathurst, Easter 1959… I’m not sure if this is the parade lap described below or a race but the presence of the sportscar in amongst the touring cars suggests the former. The stunning series of photographs are uber-rare ones from the inside of Conrod Straight, the […]
The Wylie’s Javelin Special by Bruce Polain and Mark Bisset…
Posted: September 14, 2018 in Features, ObscuritiesTags: 1953 Australian Grand Prix, 1954 Australian Grand Prix, Arthur Griffiths, Arthur Wylie, Australian Motor Racing History, Bob Punch, Bruce Polain, Don Gorringe, John Youl, Ken Wylie, Wylie Javelin
Bruce Polain, a prominent Australian historic-racer, historian and restorer wrote this tongue in cheek piece about how Arthur Wylie’s radical Javelin Special/Wylie Javelin could have changed the face of motor racing history. Bruce’s full ‘bio’ is later in this article… ‘In addition to my personal motor sport participation, I had for some years been a […]
Penrith’s World Championship Race 1930…
Posted: June 8, 2017 in Features, Who,What,Where & When...?Tags: Austin 7 Brooklands, Australian Motor Racing History, Bill Northam, Bugatti T37, Charlie East, John Sherwood, Lea Francis Hyper, Penrith Speedway, Salmson, Sam Aggett, Tom Lord, Tom Sulman
The finalists are off to a flying start in the 6 October 1930 ‘World Championship’ for under 1500cc cars on dirt, Penrith Speedway, Sydney… The glass plate negative, wonderful monochrome photograph creates such an evocative feel apart from the scene itself. From the outside is John Sherwood’s cumbersome looking Lea Francis O-Type, then the Sam […]
1953 REDeX Round Australia Reliability Trial…
Posted: December 15, 2017 in Features, Who,What,Where & When...?Tags: 1953 Redex Around Australia Reliability Trial, B Kingston, Charlie Dean, Holden 48-215, Jaguar Mk7, Ken Tubman, Lex Davison, Peugeot 203, Stan Jones
The Northern Territory entered Jaguar Mk7 of B Kingston and a Holden 48-215 line up for fuel at Bonds Chalet, Alice Springs during the 1953 Redex Round Australia Trial on 9/10 September… It’s a quintessential Alice Springs scene, the red-brown parched soil and mid-green eucalypts framed in the distance by the MacDonell Ranges. Most of […]
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