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Re: 29/4/1923, Milan circuit de Monza, Grand prix des cyclecars, Arthur Waite sur Austin

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...

Re: 29/4/1923, Milan circuit de Monza, Grand prix des cyclecars, Arthur Waite sur Austin

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