04-12-2017, 04:52 PM
I agree they would be an asset to the Gallery, but I think we need to ask permission first; can you do that Hedd?
The Facebook pictures do create a number of questions: There are photos of the car in original GE Brooklands form dated 1925 (date of the photo or date of the car?) and again 'partly redesigned' dated 1928, but then there is another photo dated 1938 back in more-or-less standard Brooklands form. Was the car converted back to a road car after its competition life, or should that be dated 1928(seems unlikely)?
The photo at Madresfield also appear on Austin Harris'website, where he has the driver as J P Dingle, whereas the Facebook photo is captioned as Mervyn Corey (?) and R F-W (Rodney Forestier-Walker) - presumably the photo album is correct, but Austin will have taken the name from the original negative, so ...?
The Facebook pictures do create a number of questions: There are photos of the car in original GE Brooklands form dated 1925 (date of the photo or date of the car?) and again 'partly redesigned' dated 1928, but then there is another photo dated 1938 back in more-or-less standard Brooklands form. Was the car converted back to a road car after its competition life, or should that be dated 1928(seems unlikely)?
The photo at Madresfield also appear on Austin Harris'website, where he has the driver as J P Dingle, whereas the Facebook photo is captioned as Mervyn Corey (?) and R F-W (Rodney Forestier-Walker) - presumably the photo album is correct, but Austin will have taken the name from the original negative, so ...?