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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  Collectors' Cars, Motorcycles & Automobilia
• Sale Date:
  14 Aug 2016 ~ 12noon
• Lot #:
  25
• Lot Description:
  ROB ROY HILL CLIMB: A highly important pre-war trophy tankard won by Peter Whitehead
  in his E.R.A. at the Rob Roy Hillclimb in Australia in 1938. The body engraved 'L.C.C.A., ROB ROY CLIMB (4), 13.6.38, P.N.WHITEHEAD, 1st CLASS 3 (C)', the base underside stamped PARAMOUNT PLATE BEST EPNS A1 QUALITY 6069, 12cm high.
• Notes:
  Rob Roy was established in 1937 as Australia's first purpose-built Hillclimb venue, and in 1938 it became the host of nine Australian Hillclimb Championships, the first of which was won by Englishman Peter Whitehead in his E.R.A. R10B in 1938. This win on 13th June 1938 became an outright track record at 31.46 seconds which shaved a massive 4 second off the pervious best time set by local Jack Day. This Englishman also won that year's Australian Grand Prix, the first at the new unpaved Bathurst Mount Panorama circuit, as well as several attempts at the Australian Land Speed Record. Post-war Whitehead continued with E.R.A. before becoming the first privateer to own and race a Formula 1 Ferrari in which he won the 1949 Czechoslovakian Grand Prix at Brno. Later he went on to score Jaguar's first win in the Le Mans 24-hour race shared with Peter Walker, in 1951. This understated trophy offered here is an important part of Australia's pre-war motorsport heritage. Sold together with a second edition copy of Split Second, 'My Racing Years by Raymond Mays' which has been inscribed in the cover 'Leonard, All the best and good wishes, Ray'. (2)
• Estimate:
  A$800 - 1,200
• Realised Price:
  *****
  

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• Category:
  Collectables

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