Alfred Owen

In the clippings (6)

1 Feb 1954Driver of B.R.M. arrives: Ken Wharton in ChristchurchKen Wharton, driver of the 200mph B.R.M., arrived in Christchurch on 30 January 1954 for the Lady Wigram Trophy.2 Feb 1954Britain's challenge in motor racing: development of the B.R.M.Long technical history of the B.R.M. (British Racing Motors) written for The Press: its origins in Raymond Mays's…5 Feb 1954Spares arrive for the B.R.M.Advertisement/photo: delivery of one of ten cases of B.R.M.22 Jan 1959Flockhart and Brabham favouritesThe Press motoring correspondent R. M. Carr previews the 1959 Lady Wigram Trophy: with only two overseas drivers, Ron…24 Jan 1959Flockhart sets new Wigram lap recordIn practice on the evening before the race, Ron Flockhart (BRM) set a new Wigram lap record of 1min 21.6sec, about…21 Jan 1967Stewart wins preliminary of big raceJackie Stewart (BRM) won the second 25-mile preliminary for the 1967 Lady Wigram Trophy from Jack Brabham (Repco V8),…

From the reports

• B.R.M. was put up for sale in 1952 and bought by A. G. B. Owen. (2 Feb 1954)
• The BRM project consumed nearly 1,000,000 pounds before the original V16 cars were abandoned and taken over by A. G. B. Owen. (22 Jan 1959)
• The BRM raced at Wigram in 1959 was valued at 50,000 pounds and was one of six to be raced by A. G. B. Owen in the coming Formula 1 series. (24 Jan 1959)
• BRM had used American Goodyear tyres in the 1967 Tasman series but sought permission from Sir Alfred Owen to switch to Firestones after Clark, on Firestones, set the fastest practice lap. (21 Jan 1967)

Built automatically from OCR of the clippings, so a name printed two ways may still be split across two profiles, and some results may be missing. Spotted a mistake?