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These detailed insights into a bygone era of speed are highly collectable yet fun, too

A DAY OUT at the races? In the 1920s and ’30s, that didn’t just mean the gee-gees if you lived in greater London and had an empty Saturday afternoon. If you liked the brum-brums then there was at least one steam train an hour to whisk you from Waterloo down to Weybridge. For here was the home of Brooklands, the world’s first purpose-built motor racing circuit, where speed and lap records were constantly being shattered, and where well-to-do petrolheads hung out – the air thick with the proverbial aroma of Castrol R – to be in and around sports and racing cars. The Brooklands Automobile Racing Club’s Open Meetings were the most common fixtures throughout the 1930s, jostling with Junior Car Club and Light Car Club meetings, and motorcycle race days in…

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Octane (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2015

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