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Twenty years of Lady Wigram Trophy meetings

Motor Racing Club promotion for the 15th International Lady Wigram Trophy Grand Prix race, recalling that the first New Zealand Road Racing Championship at RNZAF Wigram in 1949 over 105 miles was won by M. Proctor of Wellington in a Brooklands Riley. The photo shows the Gold Leaf Lotus of world champion Graham Hill.

Facts

  • The 1949 New Zealand Road Racing Championship at RNZAF Wigram was over 105 miles and won by M. Proctor of Wellington in a Brooklands Riley.
  • The 1949 Wigram field included an Invicta, M.G.s and supercharged Austin 7s.

Photos

  • Typical of today's sophisticated G.P. cars and a possible candidate for the chequered flag, the Gold Leaf Lotus driven by World Champion Graham Hill.
Read the OCR text
15-1-69 THE MOTOR RAC CLUB (INC.) PRESENTS The VTERNATIONA ADY WI TROPHY GRAN RACE DY WIGRAM G OTOR RACINGI 1949 2 1969 Road Racing Championship, held over a distance of 105 miles at R.N.Z.A.F. Wigram, was won by M. Proctor of 1949 the first New Zealand Car 20 Wellington driving a Brooklands Riley YEARS OF (now preserved) against a field which LADY WIGRAM included an invicta, M.G.s, and even supercharged Austin 7s. TROPHY MEETINGS! Typical of today's highly sophisticated G.P. cars and a possible candidate for the chequered flag-the Gold Leat Lotus driven by World Champion Graham Hill. DOHY RACE

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