Crouch at Brooklands 1922 BARC Easter Meeting

Crouch at Brooklands 1922 BARC Easter Meeting

Autocar Glass Plate A168

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Comments (7)

  • David Manson
    Wednesday, July 23, 2008

    Perhaps a 4-cyl. Crouch, and just possibly, Ralph Empson driving?

  • D. Manson
    Thursday, July 24, 2008

    Sorry - should have said Reginald Empson. Car has rudimentary chassis frame, but full eliptic front and cantilever rear springs.

  • Greg Wrapson
    Thursday, August 21, 2008

    Yes, one of the Crouch variants.

  • Guest
    Thursday, May 14, 2009

    The Autocar's caption has this as J W Tollady, who won the 75mph Short Handicap.

  • Guest
    Monday, October 4, 2010

    Nope. The driver and owner of the car is John William Tollady, my grandfather.

  • Gillian Carey
    Saturday, July 11, 2015

    Thought you might be interested to know that JW Tollady was the brother of my Great Grandmother Nellie Hawkins (Tollady) . Just stumbled on this website by chance today....

  • Ian Tollady
    Tuesday, January 12, 2016

    The driver is most certainly my Grandfather- John William Tollady. I do not know the identities of the man and boy alongside, they appear in a number of photographs. The man could have been JWT's racing mechanic or family chauffeur. The car is an 1100cc Anzani, rear engined, chain driven Crouch, which was driven with notable success over a number of years, such that it was named 'Grandpa'. Sadly JWT died in 1938 when I was only 3; my Father, who did his apprenticeship at BSA; worked in their development department, then Daimler, died when I was 13 so I was unable to explore their racing experiences. I won an 1172 formula race at Brands Hatch in 1959 in a Lotus 7 and was approached in the paddock after the event, by an elderly man who had seen JWT's exploits at Brooklands. He described my Grandmother as 'a very beautiful woman'! Unfortunately I did not note his contact details at the time. I went on to design and race (coincidentally) the first rear engined 1172 formula car, 'Aquila' which won the Chapman and 'One-Off' trophies and was exhibited on the 750 MC stand twice at 1963 and '65. Racing Car Show at Olympia.