Found on Gallica HERE



Titre :
29-4-23, Milan [circuit de Monza, Grand prix des cyclecars, Arthur] Waite sur Austin [à l'arrêt] : [photographie de presse] / [Agence Rol]
Auteur :
Agence Rol. Agence photographique
Date d'édition :
1923
Sujet :
Waite, Arthur (1894-1991) -- Portraits
Sujet :
Side-cars -- Grande-Bretagne
Sujet :
Courses de side-cars -- Italie -- Monza (Italie)
Sujet :
Circuits automobiles -- Italie -- Monza (Italie)
Sujet :
Monza (Italie)
Sujet :
Portraits collectifs -- 1914-1945
Type :
image fixe
Type :
photographie
Langue :
français
Langue :
français
Format :
1 photogr. nég. sur verre ; 13 x 18 cm (sup.)
Format :
image/jpeg
Format :
Nombre total de vues : 1
Description :
Référence bibliographique : Rol, 82947
Description :
Appartient à l’ensemble documentaire : Pho20Rol
Description :
Image de presse
Droits :
domaine public
Identifiant :
ark:/12148/btv1b53105528h
Source :
Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Estampes et photographie, EI-13 (1005)
Couverture :
29 avril 1923
Relation :
http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb443618696
Provenance :
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Date de mise en ligne :
05/10/2015

Location: So so Sunny Brittany

Splendid, Renaud. I consider BNF/Gallica an excellent resource.

All the best,
Stuart

Location: Sunny Brittany

Anybody knows who Arthur Waites who died in 1991 was?

Location: Very Unsunny Brittany

Briefly Arthur Waite was Herbert Austin's son in law - started racing Austin 7's early on, came to Australia in 1927, won the first Australian Grand Prix in 1928 and after a good racing career in 7's went on to be a company director, retiring as executive director of BMC in 1964 .

He was the founding patron of the Austin Seven Club in Victoria and we have one of his racing trophies in the clubroom.

Others will have a much more detailed history.

Cheers, Tony.

Location: Melbourne. Victoria, Australia.

I wondered why there was no comments. That was obviously because he was so well known.
Thanks Tony.

Location: Very Unsunny Brittany

Go to the A7CA Archive website, click on Trophies, then on Waite where you will see images of the "Monza " trophy won as a first class award in the 750cc class by Waite at the Italian Grans Prix.
The trophy correctly described as " Societe Incemento Automobilisimo e Sport " is held by the A7CA. It is a most beautiful specimen and can next be viewed at the Archive Open Day at Lubenham on Sunday April 2nd.

Location: Melton Mowbray

Here is the trophy that Chris mentions Renaud:

http://archive.a7ca.org/collections/trophies/item/TR0007/?

I think some of the detail that Chris mentions could be included alongside the photo easily - something for us to discuss further at the next Archive meeting?

and Phil Baildon has confirmed that Alf Depper is in the passenger seat...

Location: Cambridge

Wonderful!
Apart (maybe?) for the photo digged from Gallica by a friend here you all know really everything about it!
Beats gogol!
Thanks,
Renaud

Location: Quite sunny Brittany with some showers...

Just to add a bit more to Tony's resume on A.C.R. Waite, I corresponded with him for some time as well as phoned from Down Under and he was most helpful. After a while I got the idea of him perhaps becoming our first Club Patron & he readily agreed. Not only that, he in his old-fashioned way thought that a Patron should help support the Club, so he sent gobs of money! In one letter he claimed he was a foundation member of the British Racing Drivers Club, but as I found that it started in 1927/28 when he was here in Melbourne, I luckily did not include that in his credentials. Recently I did some research and found he was not a Foundation member, but joined in 1929 when he went back to England. He was a Committee member in the period 1930/31. He later became a life member of the BRDC. I have just sent a letter to our present Club committee suggesting we add this latter to his many other credentials in our literature. Cheers, Bill

Location: Euroa, Australia