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Contents 1945 500 Owners Association MOTOR SPORT Magazine Clippings - 1940’s Issued: 4th March 2015 Notes on 500 and 500-related references This paper is an attempt to record every single 500-related reference from the entire run of the magazine. It includes articles, references in event reports, For Sale advertisements. It also tries to include details that are relevant to the context of the 500 movement, such as clubs, organisation of the sport, and the development of venues. The only area where it is limited is when covering the careers of 500 drivers before or after their time in the movement Status: All magazines in the time period have been fully catalogued. Notes On : • Magazine issues with no entry & light shading are not available for cataloguing. We would be grateful if you could volunteer to add any missing issues. • Every effort has been made to find references, including references in general and classified advertisements. However, it is quite possible that some may have been missed whether because they are very obscure, apparently irrelevant, or just human error. • Transcription Style: • Text has been transcribed verbatim (including spelling errors), with only modern grammar substituted for contractions (e.g. “S Moss” for “S.Moss”; “ftd” for f.t.d.) • “(sic)” notation may have been used where relevant in text, and is a transcriber’s note rather than the source text. • For longer articles, only pieces of note are transcribed. The ellipsis (“… “) before a sentence indicates that text deemed irrelevant has been skipped (which could run to many paragraphs, e.g. reports of other classes in an event report). The ellipsis within a sentence indicates that the original text drifted off-subject. • For other notes, refer to the 500OA comments. • We have copied MOTOR SPORT magazine’s own style of referring to itself in small capitals. This differentiates the magazine from the activity of motor sport. • Obviously many 500 drivers were being mentioned in the magazine when they were racing other cars. Only references relevant to the 500 story have been transcribed. If you intend to research a driver across classes, you will need to go back to source. • MOTOR SPORT magazine ran continuous page numbering from January to December. However, it operated some curious rules as to what it considered a page. For this exercise, page numbers are given to the classified advertisement pages at the end of an issue, continuing from the last numbered page. Occasionally that number will also be given to the opening pages of the next issue (also un-numbered, and counted forward from the first numbered page). It will make sense when you find it… • If you can add to this list, whether by cataloguing any missing issues or by commenting on existing notes, please send a marked-up copy of this file to Richard Hodges ([email protected]). Thanks. Contents 1945 ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 2 1946 ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 2 1947 .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 10 1948 .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 25 1949 .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 55 1945 Reference Item 500 Owners Association Comments Through all 12 editions, there are no references at all to the development or promotion of a Class I formula, or construction of any cars. 1946 Reference Item 500 Owners Association Comments January 1946 pp13 Rumblings A 500cc class at sprint events has been suggested many times in MOTOR SPORT, notably by Kenneth Neve. Lots of ‘special’ builders indicated that they were very keen to try their hands at this interesting aspect of the game, but obviously they were not prepared to carry their plans very far until one or more of the active clubs promised a class for such cars at their events. Until last month no one was bold enough to do this. Then the Vintage SCC came forward with the announcement that in all their future speed events provision would be made for Class I cars. In order to gain some ideas of the likely entries which Class I will obtain, AS Heal asks any amateur builders of such cars who would like to compete in VSCC speed trials and hill-climbs later this year to communicate with him – at Red Hill Cottage, Denham, Bucks. (Denham 2710) February 1946 pp36 Rumblings The Vintage SCC has led the way in respect of 500cc racing cars by announcing that its future events will embrace a class for such cars. This announcement is followed by news of a meeting of the go-ahead Bristol Aeroplane Company’s Motor Sports Club, which also intends to sponsor the half-litres. The latter club suggests not more than two cylinders, superchargers banned, single-seater bodies and no other restrictions, dope fuel being permitted. This would seem a wise policy and one which might be widely adopted. It will to some extent deter Money-Bags Junr. from coming along and wiping everyone’s eye with an expensive blown, all-independent, multi-cylinder job. It still remains to be seen whether 500cc “specials” will be so slow as to make 1100cc GN-basis jobs more desirable and whether, in the long run, the latter won’t be less expensive as well as more exciting. But on the face of it, the 500cc sprint class is worth a trial. March 1946 pp65 Wanted • Not identified as a specific 500 racing BSA fwd unit complete with road wheels, half shafts, etc.. Year and model immaterial. Also project, and the only Wilcocks 500cc DT JAP engine complete with magneto and carburettor. Wilcocks, The Cottage, recorded is in a Cooper in 1952. Reference Item 500 Owners Association Comments Faircross Way, St. Albans April 1946 No references May 1946 pp104 Rumblings • Wilson, Giles and Bowler are the The suggested rules for 500cc class contests, laid down by the BAC Motor Sports Club are Competition Secretaries of the MAC, by now well known and seem generally acceptable. We rather liked the idea of not BOC and VSCC permitting more than two cylinders, but whether or not real economy would have resulted from insisting on pump fuel is debatable, John Bolster, of course, believing that reliability can only be courted by using alcohol, and rightly saying that engine “blow-ups” will absorb more cash than costly fuel. With this question goes the capacity of the fuel tanks, although enforcing two gallons maximum capacity might well even things up in circuit racing, by bringing the more highly-tuned alcohol-motored cars into the pits quite frequently – probably once every 30 miles or so. Even before the discussion on March 25th, the very go-ahead Bristolians had done much for 500cc cars. Enquiries came in from as far afield as Singapore, Scotland, Leamington and Cardiff, and Bolster, Neve, Carson, Joe Fry, Poore and HC Lones are reported to have 500cc “specials: on the stocks. So the support of the Vintage SCC, BOC and Midland AC is well merited. Dick Caesar has done a very great deal for the “new fast motoring” movement, including a visit to London to confer with SCH Davis. He also enthuses over racing of cars powered with standard Ford Ten or similar engines, but realises that 500cc “specials” are of more universal appeal. On March 25th last another meeting was held and the proposals brought to a head. It was suggested that any type of half-lire engine be permitted, but that superchargers be barred, that four-wheel brakes with an independent hand-lever be insisted upon and that no restrictions be made in respect of fuel or bodywork, etc., providing the minimum weight is 500lb. All this seems perfectly acceptable, taken in conjunction with the RAC scrutineering proviso, but it must be remembered that these are suggestions only. Already the May Prescott meeting includes a class for supercharged 500s, unless the regulations have been amended. Now how much more usefully directed all this praiseworthy and enterprising Bristol thinking would have been had the RAC laid down these rules as applying to all national 500cc contests, record-breaking excepted. Or even if Leslie Wilson, Eric Giles, Harry Bowler and other sprint organisers had agreed to a common formula to govern their 500cc class events. However, near-standardisation will undoubtedly follow and 500cc racing is “on.” Eighty souls are now earnestly interested. June 1946 pp115 Wet At Prescott! (19th May) … Two 500cc cars ran, Strang’s 499cc HRD-engined, Fiat-500-chassis Strang 500, and Reference Item 500 Owners Association Comments Lones’s 496cc Tiger Kitten. The latter has a well-finned one-cylinder JAP engine in an Austin Seven chassis, using an Austin Seven gearbox, an upside down Austin “Ulster” front axle, and a cut-down “Ruby” Austin radiator grille. These two
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