06-04-2025, 07:15 AM
Malcolm & Jenny Lyon, follwed by a Cotton motorcycle
Mick Hobday
Ray & Barbara Moses
What I did on Friday, amongst other things, was to snap motor cars acsending Frome's Hill. This was part of the tour celebrating the Centenary of the Hereford Speed Trials. As all historians will know, Saturday 4th April 1925 was the week after the RAC pronounced a total ban on speed events on public roads following an incident at Aston. However the Mayor of Hereford decided that Hereford needed to pay no attention to such a distant and inferior city as London, in which he was aided and abetted by Mr Featherstone of the ACU, the delivery of whose telegram informing the orgainsers of the ban was strangely delayed until the Monday after the event.
Frome's Hill was used between 1904 and 1907. In 1906 Mr Herbert Austin attended as the designer of Wolseley, in 1907 he drove an 25-30 hp Austin which must have been a very early example.
Austin photographer David Southcott was at the Wellington Ford and may add images of amphibious Sevens in due course. Editor Howard's special must have carried him at such a speed across the countryside that he had ascended Frome's Hill before I got there.