Marseal at 1923 BARC Meeting at Brooklands

Marseal at 1923 BARC Meeting at Brooklands

Autocar Glass Plate A2454

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Comments (3)

  • Graham Skillen
    Wednesday, August 12, 2009

    If this is 28th April, 1923, then car No. 9 was A.C. Kelway in the Novices Handicap, when he came second. Kelway was related to DMK Marendaz, designer of the Marseal.

  • paul wmack
    Thursday, May 12, 2016

    According to the Diss Express (via the British Newspaper Archive): Diss Express - Friday 12 October 1923, p5 BOTESDALE. Motor Racing —At the Autumn meeting of the Automobile Racing Club, held at Brooklands, on September 26th. Capt F. C. H. Katon, Botesdale, competed with the world's fastest cars and won the 75 miles per hour long handicap, leading all the way and winning by half the length of the finishing straight. His average speed from the standing start was 76 3/4 miles per hour. The car was a Marseal Standard Sports, specially tuned at Capt. Katon's garage at Botesdale, and the prize was a £3O silver cup. He left Botesdale at 6 a.m., arriving at Weybridge during the morning, raced in the afternoon and drove the car back in the evening, doing the 240 miles road journey, being 2 hours on the track in the morning, and racing in the afternoon, a splendid performance. The highest speed reached was 87 1/2 miles per hour, Capt Dundas beating such well known racing motorists as Kaye Don and Malcolm Campbell, with their powerful organization behind them.

  • Roger Bird
    Saturday, July 16, 2016

    Botesdale to Weybridge is 120 miles which he apparently covered in four hours averaging 30mph at a time when the speed limit was 20 and the roads were nowhere near their current state..