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Edwards Special - Ohakea 1954
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Originally Posted by
KWMartin
Hello Roger, many thanks for your offer to search through the meeting programmes. It would be lovely to uncover some more information on this rather rare beast.
Regards
Kirk
Kirk, hi,
quick search and found this from one of the programmes Bruce sent to me
" OHAKEA TROPHY RACES "
Saturday, 6th MARCH, 1954
" Event 2
Sports Car & Racing Car Hcp.
16 Miles - Fuel Optional - 8 Laps
held in conjucntion with the 500 cc Scratch Race
Entry list
Car #9 J Edwards Edwards Special 1172 cc."
Checking my scans only have saved the cover page already. see below
" Event 10
Ohakea Trophy Race
50 Miles - Fuel Optional - 25 laps
Car #9 J Edwards Edwards Special 1172 cc 11 mins 25 sec Handicap ".
The cover of the programme
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Kirk - please Personal Message on the forum your Email address as will send the full scan of the programme - not already done so will scan and send later.
Hope this is a help - well a start, anyway - more to come
Cheers
Roger
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Edwards Special - Ohakea 1954 Car #9 Sports and Racing car Race Event 2.
A page from the 1954 Ohakea Trophy Races -
Having trouble with resizing [ reducing size of some of the images - this one worked.
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Still seeking a photo[s] of the car
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Edwards Special - Ohakea 1954 and a certain Singer with Trevor Sheffield driving.
" I competed in this event driving the Ralph Watson Le Mans Singer which I owned at the time and I recall some of the cars listed, but unfortunately not the Edwards Special. "
The Edwards Special competed in the "Sports Car and Racing Car Race " [ Event 2 ] and the " Ohakea Trophy Race " [ Event 10 ].
Trevor Sheffield in Ralph Watson's Singer competed in both those races and also in the " Sports Car Handicap Race " for standard [ fully equipped ] Sports Cars [ Event 4 ]
The front and back cover of the programme
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Full copy of the Entry List - Event 2
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Event 4 - the Sports Car Handicap race - Trevor Sheffield in the Singer.
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The Ohakea Trophy Race - the main Event [ Event 10 ]
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The Prize List and a photo of the Molesworth Trophy
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Trophy previously won by George Smith and Ron Roycroft.
The Vercoe article on the Edwards Ford - the whole page.
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Edwards Special - Ohakea 1954
The 1954 Trophy Race ;
The entrants
5th Ohakea Trophy
Date: 6th March 1954
Venue: Ohakea Airfield
25 laps of 3.405kms (85.13kms)
Starting Order: (Handicap Race) Bern, Edwards and Aitken started and the rest followed at indicated times behind him.
Driver Handicap
“Wally Bern 0m
Jack Edwards 0m
Jock Aitken 0m *
Peter McInally 0m
Bruce Lawrence 0m 50s
C Taylor 0m 50s
Dave Long 0m 50s
Don Tilsley 1m 15s
Boxer Fanselow 1m 15s *
Noel Ching 1m 40s
Allan Freeman 1m 40s
Tom Clark 2m 05s
D Hutton 2m 30s *
Herb Gilroy 2m 30s
Keith Roper 2m 55s
Rob Bagnall 2m 55s
Fordy Farland 3m 45s *
Halsey Logan 5m 25s
Johnny Mansel 5m 50s
Bessie Christie 6m 15s
Harry Chatteris 6m 15s *
Peter Harrison 7m 05s *
Ron Frost 7m 05s
Hec McLean 7m 05s
Peter Ward 7m 05s
Bill Lee 7m 05s
Arnold Stafford 7m 05s
Vic Shuter 8m 20s
George Palmer 8m 20s
Alistair McBeath 8m 20s *
Des McDonagh 8m 45s *
Frank Shuter 9m 10s
Les Moore 9m 35s *
George Smith 10m 00s
Bob Gibbons 10m 50s
Ron Roycroft 11m 40s
* Did not start
The handicap Times differ from the programme- presume based on earlier race results and /or practice laps.