22-04-2020, 08:45 AM
Ian,
I don't think we should read too much into Gordon England's comment that the photo of the 1924 Swiss GP car was the first Brooklands, because there are a number of ways of interpreting that statement. It is entirely possible that the car was, indeed, a development of his first 1923 car; or it could be that he meant it was the first one he built in this definitive form; or maybe it was the first one he built that the Works officially ran; or that he misremembered, or I misheard, and he meant the first car he built that ran overseas, or maybe some other 'first' ...
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I don't think we should read too much into Gordon England's comment that the photo of the 1924 Swiss GP car was the first Brooklands, because there are a number of ways of interpreting that statement. It is entirely possible that the car was, indeed, a development of his first 1923 car; or it could be that he meant it was the first one he built in this definitive form; or maybe it was the first one he built that the Works officially ran; or that he misremembered, or I misheard, and he meant the first car he built that ran overseas, or maybe some other 'first' ...
No, I'm not letting you wriggle out of the article by writing this preview