Beschreibung:

An Important collection of Vauxhall Motor Racing Ephemera including two log books detailing The Tribulations of a Trials Mechanic, Ernest W. Frazer, Sometime Racing Mechanic to Vauxhall Motors Ltd. Book one containing details of: The Irish Reliability Trial of 1909, The Scottish Reliability Trial of 1909, Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb - July 1909, The Star-Vauxhall Match (Brooklands 21st December 1909) including a description of the building and use of the first purely racing Streamline body used by Messrs. Vauxhall Motors on the track and the Brooklands Easter Meeting 28 March 1910; Book Two with details of: The Brooklands April Meeting 1910, an extensive report of the Prince Henry "Tour" 1910, and the Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb - July 2nd 1910; Other ephemera including a 1912 Grand Prix de L'A.C.F. arm band marked Vauxhall ; a hand drawn detailed contour map of the "Circuit de Dieppe" and other items relating to this race; a quantity of photographs; other Vuaxhall ephemera; and an RAC presentation medal engraved Coupe de L'auto 1912 - Ernest William Fraser