This impressive sterling silver cup was presented to the club in 1935 by Sir Roy Fedden. It stands approximately 350mm high on its original plinth, and is about 250mm wide across the handles. The hallmark dates the [click. . .]
In 1936, two young students, Hugh Dunsterville and David Fry, put together a racing car from parts they bought in a Redcliffe scrap yard for a few pounds. At its debut a few months later at the Backwell Speed Hillclimb, [click. . .]
In the mid-1940s a craze developed for Tethered Car Racing, in which roughly 1/12 scale model cars powered by tiny petrol engines, tethered by a wire cable to a central post, run at high speed round a circular concrete [click. . .]
Competitors have to drive up a narrow, steep, muddy slope without getting stuck. Then back on the road and drive to the next one. A dozen hills, 80-odd road miles, in a day…that's all. 2019 date is 24 November [click. . .]
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