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Mike on Thames
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 02/02/2020 : 20:15:33
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Not a car, but I picked this up on eBay a while ago as it looked interesting (a bit Soviet!) I wonder if any of the expert researchers on the forum can tell me what car Miss Taylor drove in the high peaks trial in 1934?
Appreciate your time.
Mike
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MaGic_GV
United Kingdom
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Posted - 02/02/2020 : 22:25:30
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Miss K.Taylor was pictured with a PA on the RAC 1000 miles trial of 1935...
Regards,
Graham
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JCB
United Kingdom
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Mike the M
United Kingdom
481 Posts |
Posted - 03/02/2020 : 09:20:02
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Nothing for the High Peak Trial but for others:-
Brighton Beer 17 June 1934 in an open Ford with a second class award.
Gloucester 8 December 1934 comp no. 167 Bronze award in a Midget
Colmore 23 February 1935 comp no. 66 847c.c.
Brighton Beer 20/21 June 1936 comp no.18 in a PB's' 939c.c.First award
So it would seem that she was in the 847 c.c. Midget in 1934 and then went to a supercharged PB.
I have no further details!
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Mike on Thames
United Kingdom
123 Posts |
Posted - 03/02/2020 : 17:22:00
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Miss Taylor seems to have been an enthusiastic trialist - had a look in the motoring picture library there is a photo of her P-type.
MG PB 1936 939 cc. Vehicle Reg. No. JR4345. Event Entry No: 174. Driver: Taylor, Miss. K. Finished: 26th. out of 32. Chassis No. PB0558.. R.S.A.C. Scottish Rally.. Date: 1-5.6.36.
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Mike on Thames
United Kingdom
123 Posts |
Posted - 03/02/2020 : 20:38:57
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The WASA reliability trial was 11th & 12th May 1934 - would the results be in the June edition of Motor Sport Magazine? I don’t have a copy and the MS website isn’t helpful
Thanks
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Colin Butchers
United Kingdom
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Posted - 04/02/2020 : 19:39:03
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A brief report appears in the "Club News" Section on page 373 of the June 1934 Motor Sport. Miss K Taylor's name does not appear in the text nor the published results, although a number of prominent lady drivers of the time including Kay Petre, Doreen Evans and Peggy Blathwayt are mentioned. One driver, Miss Bean managed to get her Singer jammed on the rocks of a Section called Urry's Pet (no I don't have the faintest idea is where it is either other than being near Harlech) that it took thirteen men to extricate driver and car. Possibly these were the Men of Harlech that the Welsh keep singing about.
Colin B.
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Simon Johnston
United Kingdom
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Posted - 04/02/2020 : 20:27:06
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Oliver Richardson has offered this photo from his own collection of Kay Taylor with her PA at Brooklands in 1935. For more info on M.G. lady drivers watch out for the 2019 Yearbook due to be published just after Easter.
Simon J
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Ian Bowers
United Kingdom
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Posted - 05/02/2020 : 07:32:38
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Immediately behind, I am pretty sure, from the face shape, beret and accompanying friend in Miss E V Watson. There is also a picture of her at the same test in a PA (but a quick search just now has failed to turn it up!).
Ian Bowers
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Simon Johnston
United Kingdom
6121 Posts |
Posted - 05/02/2020 : 07:53:11
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Does this help, Ian?
Simon J
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Ian Bowers
United Kingdom
941 Posts |
Posted - 05/02/2020 : 08:58:39
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Thanks, Simon, that is her for sure, now!
It looks like a pneumatic windscreen wiper on the car, which is odd, since her earlier car is the J3 shown on Nailsworth Ladder in 1933 with an electric one.
Sorry we seem to have hijacked the original strand.
Ian Bowers
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Simon Johnston
United Kingdom
6121 Posts |
Posted - 05/02/2020 : 09:46:06
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I'd have to disagree, Ian. That's surely an electric wiper motor on both cars.
Simon J
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sam christie
United Kingdom
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Posted - 05/02/2020 : 09:54:15
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Ian Bowers
United Kingdom
941 Posts |
Posted - 05/02/2020 : 10:20:37
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Yep, it was the exit pipe from the fuel tank of the car in front which misled me, thanks for the correction.
Ian Bowers
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Mike on Thames
United Kingdom
123 Posts |
Posted - 05/02/2020 : 22:00:26
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Really interesting when you have a dig about in the archive - not so Soviet after all - quite the opposite in fact.
This from 2013
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Mike Allison
United Kingdom
184 Posts
Posted - 24/06/2013 : 07:58:21 Show Profile Email Poster
Hello all you Northumbrians!
The most active Triple-M owner of the thirties was probably Miss K.Taylor, who had the P-type BBB225 almost to the start of the war. The car was supercharged and ran in many trials and speed events. Miss Taylor lived at Wark, but she fell into disfavour for her out=spoken support of Oswald Mosley, and, even worse, Adolf Hitler. |
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Colin Butchers
United Kingdom
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Posted - 06/02/2020 : 09:52:07
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Possibly a remarkable co-incidence, but another lady M.G. driver was Fay Taylour. Irish born, lived for a while in Australia and was a dirt track racing motorcyclist. She was also an enthusiast of the far-right and was imprisoned in the Isle of Man during the war years for being a likely disruptive influence to the rest of the U.K. population.
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