This is Gordon England is he in the Prototype Brooklands developed from the Barrel? DH
Guest
Thursday, May 1, 2008
Doesn't that look like Malcolm Campbell, in the Star? And - what on earth is a Self-Controlled Air Cushion?
Mike Wylie
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Yes, this is the, then Capt. Malcolm Campbell in a Star after winning the twenty-seventh 75 m.p.h. Short Handicap at the Easter 1924 Meeting, with Richard Lisle (who usually sported a mustache)of Star Company standing proudly beside. Note that, unusually, the track rod is in front of the axle indicating that there is an intention to fit a larger/longer three bearing engine than the original two bearing 1795 cc of this 11.9 h.p. model chassis, or that the larger engine has already been fitted which would mean that the cubic capacity might just have been miss-declared! This is the car that was developed through the 1924 season, gaining wire wheels, an overhead-valve version of the larger engine, and a single-seat polished aluminium body, to win the September Short Handicap at 79.5 m.p.h. from Dingle's Austin Seven. Starting with the original single-seat body, still complete with a 15 gallon pressurised petrol tank in the tail, I am re-creating this car, but doesn't the radiator look as though it has had a thump?
David Manson
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Congratulations on your Star Replica project - a similar Star raced twice at Sydney's Maroubra Speedway in 1925. Will yours have Self Controlled Cushions? David Manson, Sydney.
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This is Gordon England is he in the Prototype Brooklands developed from the Barrel? DH
Doesn't that look like Malcolm Campbell, in the Star? And - what on earth is a Self-Controlled Air Cushion?
Yes, this is the, then Capt. Malcolm Campbell in a Star after winning the twenty-seventh 75 m.p.h. Short Handicap at the Easter 1924 Meeting, with Richard Lisle (who usually sported a mustache)of Star Company standing proudly beside. Note that, unusually, the track rod is in front of the axle indicating that there is an intention to fit a larger/longer three bearing engine than the original two bearing 1795 cc of this 11.9 h.p. model chassis, or that the larger engine has already been fitted which would mean that the cubic capacity might just have been miss-declared! This is the car that was developed through the 1924 season, gaining wire wheels, an overhead-valve version of the larger engine, and a single-seat polished aluminium body, to win the September Short Handicap at 79.5 m.p.h. from Dingle's Austin Seven. Starting with the original single-seat body, still complete with a 15 gallon pressurised petrol tank in the tail, I am re-creating this car, but doesn't the radiator look as though it has had a thump?
Congratulations on your Star Replica project - a similar Star raced twice at Sydney's Maroubra Speedway in 1925. Will yours have Self Controlled Cushions? David Manson, Sydney.