Collectors\' Motor Cars and Automobilia

94 | THE GOODWOOD REVIVAL SALE

The race was run in heavy rain. Seaman the racer evidently took the
former course and as Aston Martin historian Dudley Coram related:
̧From the fall of the Åag he was travelling at a great pace well ahead of
his class... ̧. Despite the conditions Seaman lapped at 75.9mph ̧...
doing best against (his) handicap, the young Englishman putting up a
wonderful run in circumstances which were anything but envious”. But
after only three or four laps the car’s oil pressure began to Åuctuate
“...and at twelve laps the bearings gave up the struggle and Seaman
retired after a truly magnificent drive...(which)... impressed everyone...
and it seemed all the more unfortunate that the firm remained adamant
in their decision not to race again...”.

In this car Dick Seaman had led that 1936 TT overall on handicap and
twice broke the 2-litre class lap record, before engine seizure due to
oil loss.

Surviving factory documentation lists the original engine as unit
‘H-6-711’, installed in “Chassis built in experimental shop for 1936
Ulster race & driven by R. Seaman”. A further note records “Engine seized
due to lack oil. Afterwards rebuilt & sold E. Hertzberger. Ran various
continental races during 1937, inc. Mille Miglia, Le Mans, Montlhery”.

Its initial ex-works ownerships have been listed as follows:

E. Hertzberger of Westersingel , Rotterdam, Holland

A.D. Whitworth, Connaught Club, London W1

Mr Elwes, University Motors

Capt. D. Folland, Powley Sales Co

P.A.B. Stewart, 15 Hillside Road, East Ewell, Surrey

A separate listing includes in November 1950, Ronald John Hoare CBE

of Kelling Hall, Holt, Norfolk – the great former-Royal Artillery motoring

enthusiast who became famous simply as ‘The Colonel’ – Ronnie Hoare

• UK Ferrari importer, head of Maranello Concessionaires Ltd and
  patron of that company’s eponymous, highly successful Ferrari racing
  team. ‘The Colonel’ was a famously exacting character who would only
  settle for the very finest motor cars.

Peter Stewart’s subsequent ownership is then recorded as

commencing in 1952 followed by four further owners before marque

enthusiast Geoff Bishop of ºWheelspin’, Macdonald Road, Lightwater,

Surrey, acquired the car, his tenure enduring from 1959 until 1996.

These latter owners are listed in the car’s buff continuation logbook,

issued in 1950 and commencing with John Wyer and Dudley Folland...