Count Louis Zborowski in his Indianapolis Ballot. This was the car that Dick Howey was killed in when competing in France in 1926. The car was pushed overboard into the Channel from the Ship bringing his body home.
austin
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
The event in France was in Boulogne and is the last big hill on the old Grand Prix circuit.(<a href="http://www.motorsportmemorial.org/focus.php?db=ct&n=870">A bit more info here</a>.) Those who have been on the bicycle rally will know it well!
Guest
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Beg leave to express a different view - I have been told that Zborowski's car, identified by a patch on the lower right of the radiator core, is the one currently being restored in Hampshire - or did the whole team have that same patch? Not visible here, but clear on earlier posts on this site!
Julian Hunt
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Please Mr Guest tell us more about the Ballot being restored in Hampshire. Is it the one Denis Jenkinson identified as being in USA in his Directory of Historic Racing Cars.
David Manson
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Not the USA car, but the one that spent sixty years in Australia.
Julian Hunt
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Correction: Two days ago I was looking at the Autocar for 1 April 1922 which published a photo of the Zborowski Ballot (NUMBER 74) in which the Count can clearly be seen driving bare-headed with his wife in the passenger seat wearing a close-fitting hat. The scuttle arrangement of the car was also different to this one with a more pronounced rise up in front of the driver and the nearside much lower than the one in the photograph. My apologies.
Guest
Thursday, May 7, 2009
My colleague Bob King, Australian curator of Bugatti lore, has recently pointed out to me that there is a more convincing account in A.F.C. Hillstead's "Fifty Years of Motor Cars" to the effect that the wreck of Dick Howey's Ballot was dumped from a tug, rather than from the steamer returning to Britain. David Manson, Sydney.
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Count Louis Zborowski in his Indianapolis Ballot. This was the car that Dick Howey was killed in when competing in France in 1926. The car was pushed overboard into the Channel from the Ship bringing his body home.
The event in France was in Boulogne and is the last big hill on the old Grand Prix circuit.(<a href="http://www.motorsportmemorial.org/focus.php?db=ct&n=870">A bit more info here</a>.) Those who have been on the bicycle rally will know it well!
Beg leave to express a different view - I have been told that Zborowski's car, identified by a patch on the lower right of the radiator core, is the one currently being restored in Hampshire - or did the whole team have that same patch? Not visible here, but clear on earlier posts on this site!
Please Mr Guest tell us more about the Ballot being restored in Hampshire. Is it the one Denis Jenkinson identified as being in USA in his Directory of Historic Racing Cars.
Not the USA car, but the one that spent sixty years in Australia.
Correction: Two days ago I was looking at the Autocar for 1 April 1922 which published a photo of the Zborowski Ballot (NUMBER 74) in which the Count can clearly be seen driving bare-headed with his wife in the passenger seat wearing a close-fitting hat. The scuttle arrangement of the car was also different to this one with a more pronounced rise up in front of the driver and the nearside much lower than the one in the photograph. My apologies.
My colleague Bob King, Australian curator of Bugatti lore, has recently pointed out to me that there is a more convincing account in A.F.C. Hillstead's "Fifty Years of Motor Cars" to the effect that the wreck of Dick Howey's Ballot was dumped from a tug, rather than from the steamer returning to Britain. David Manson, Sydney.