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TopHistory

See a complete list of the winners in the Documents and photographs section below.

TopSections

The 1935 event was run in the Mendips. All subsequent events were run in the Cotswolds, although I'm still trying to find out exactly when, during the 1950s, the Fedden became a single venue event. The table below shows sections which I know were used for the years listed, but there may be others in addition - the contemporary reports often noted only those sections which decided the results, and ignored the sections which all, or most of, the entry cleaned.

Sections used

Section 1935 1936 1937 1938 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 ?
Alf's Delight - - - - - - Yes - Yes -
Breakheart - - - - Yes - Yes - Yes -
Breakheart Jnr - - - - - - - - Yes -
Club Hill - - - - - - - - Yes -
Fort - - - - Yes - ST - (x2) -
Green Lane - - - - - - Yes - - -
Hodgecombe - Yes - - - - Yes - - -
Middle Drag - Yes - - - - - - - -
Millside - - - - - - - - Yes -
Nailsworth - Yes - - - - - - - -
Nettleton - - - - - - - - Yes -
Old Hollow - Yes - - Yes - - - - -
Raizes - - - - - - Yes - - -
Shrub Hill - - - - - - Yes - Yes -
Splosh - - - - - - - - Yes -
Tin Pan Alley - - - - Yes - - - - -
Tower Hill - - - - - - - - Yes -
Tramps Paradise - Yes - - - - - - - -
Upper Doynton - - - - - - Yes - - -
Widden - - - - - - Yes - - -

TopDocuments and photographs

1935 to 2008

  • List of past winnerspdf - With thanks to Duncan Stephens and Tony Streeting
    The list was compiled from the winner's plates on the cup.

1936 - ?

  • Video - With thanks to Pete Hart.

1948 - 9th October

  • Stop Press! Motor Sport, January 1949, page 19.
  • Report. Motor Sport, February 1949, page 37.

1950 - 25th November

  • Routecardpdf - With thanks to Kevin Barnes.
    This is actually an extract from The Motor article but I'd had it for nearly eight years before Pete found a copy of the original magazine, so it's still listed seperately here for old times sake.
  • Report in "The Motor"pdf - With thanks to Pete Hart.
    This report is fascinating for a number of reasons: the revelation that the Alf of Alf's Delight (still used on the modern-day Stroud Mechanics Trial) was Alf Morrish (I've yet to find out any more about him although he was obviously a resolutely MG man up against a huge field of 1172cc Ford-engined specials); the club clearly only "observed" the very top part of the modern-day Alf's Delight section; the description of Breakheart (Crooked Mustard), which could have been written after any recent Cotswold Clouds; the small-and-light cars had almost completely taken-over from the American-engined heavyweights by 1950, although the thought of a 3.9 litre Mercury-engined HRG is rather enticing, even today; there is also a reference to Onslow-Barlett's rear-JAP-engined special restarting successfully on Breakheart - I've found several photographs of this rather amazing car in copies of Motor Sport from the early 1950s which I intend to scan and publish in the not too distant future.

1951 - 24th November

1952 - 22nd November

  • Report in "The Motor"pdf - With thanks to Pete Hart.
    This report is half the length of the 1950 report, and slightly perfunctory, signalling the decline of trials as a major interest motorsport. But where, exactly, was Breakheart Junior?