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1. Adam Ferrington has kindly added missing competition numbers to Appendix 1 as follows: 06/08/38
Poole
No. 57 20/09/47
Southsea No. 32 28/08/48
Craigantlet No. 34 04/09/48
Brighton No.
49 09/10/48
Weston No. 15 03/09/49
Brighton No. 42 29/07/50
Blandford No. 89 Also the exact date for the 1938 VSCC meeting at Prescott was 27th August 1938. 2. Jake Alderson has provided corrected information to the caption on P25: Jake Alderson, who is a Morgan expert, has kindly alerted us to an error in the caption of the photo on P25 of Robin Jackson in his record breaking three-wheeler Morgan. The photo was taken on 25 August 1928 at the New Cyclecar Club meeting at Brooklands and the engine, while being a Blackburne V twin unit, was a 500 bored out to 546 cc. Jake says that Robin made a great friend in Harry Hatch, the Blackburne designer, and the two men devised the 1097cc engine, later used in the Freik, originally for Morgan racing and record breaking. Before it reached its potential Jake suspects Robin decided to concentrate on his new Brooklands-based tuning business as he doesn't think he did anything special with it before selling his Morgan racer fitted with this engine to John Hooper in 1935. Therefore, Jake doubts the engine that went into the Freik was completed as early as 1928. When Hugh and David were looking for a better engine for the Freik and contacted Robin, Jake thinks he thought back to his own Blackburne and realised both its suitability and its development potential for the Freik. Hence he supplied them with his second and unused 1,097 cc engine and later bought back this first 1,097 cc engine from Phil Heath, who by then had bought his (Jackson's) Morgan from John Hooper.
3. Stirling Moss' pre-Keift F3 car used rear suspension set-up from the Freik We have discovered this relevant extratct from: 'Stirling Moss: My Cars, My Career', by Stirling Moss with Doug Nye. It was first published by Patrick Stephens Ltd in 1987 and re-issued by Haynes Publishing in 1999, to mark the 70th birthday of Stirling Moss. Refering to a pre-Keift car Stirling states: "It was intended to provide me with a better F3 car than I could buy off the shelf, along with everybody else, from the Cooper Car Company."It's inherent understeer made it a terrific little car to drive, far easier than a Cooper, far more forgiving and very, very quick. It really was a very sophisticated and advanced design. The Cooper was good, but I felt it could be better, less twitchy and much more stable. "To save weight we used rubber springs, bushes [sic] at the front, and a single central one at the rear actuated by wires and pulleys. It was actually a straight crib from Joe Fry's 'Freikaiserwagen' Champion hill-climb car."The car that Sir Stirling was talking about, was a
prototype Kieft which wasn't actually a Kieft at all. Iit was designed by a team consisting of Dean
Delamont (formerly of BRM), John (The Autocar) Cooper, and a
mechanic/fabricator called Ray
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