Kimber Cecil (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. 8vo. First edition. pp(4)264 "with over 70 action photographs" including colour frontispiece, and index; endpaper circuit maps. Original black cloth, backstrip and front cover with title in yellow and rules in green. Corner tips slightly rubbed, as are head & foot of backstrip. Short near-closed tear at foot of front hinge. Top edge of text-block toned & spotted and a little dust-marked, fore-edge sparsely spotted. Front endpapers with owner's blindstamp on flyleaf and same owner's small name-and-address sticker on blank section of pastedown. Binding holding firmly, contents clean and tight. VERY GOOD copy in POOR unclipped dust jacket chipped with loss, rubbed & grazed, lightly marked, and with repairs on the inside using white and manila paper gummed tape.

11¾'' x 8¼'' landscape monochrome print on cream laid paper, typed details to the reverse. In very near Fine condition. The drawing is lifted from a 1933 Autocar photograph taken after the May 6th 1933 JCC Brooklands International 250 mile (not 500 mile race as shown on the print). Eddie came second in this race and Elsie 'Bill' Wisdom finished 3rd in the car depicted, which is famously MG Magnette K3-003, Car 39 in the Mille Miglia that year by Captain G. Eyston and Count G. Lurani, As No 17 this same car also won the 1933 Ards Ulster TT at the hands of Tazio Nuvolari when his riding mechanic was Alec Hounslow. We currently hold in stock 5 other motoring prints by Tony Gardiner. Member of the P.B.F.A. MOTORING, SPORTS CARS.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This very rare softback booklet was published by the Morris Oxford Press in 1932. The book was written by Cecil Kimber, the Managing Director of The MG Car Company Ltd, with a foreword by Captain George Eyston. The booklet is the story of the participation of the MG Midgets - 9 in all - which took part in the RAC International Tourist Trophy, or Ulster TT, at the Ards Circuit, held on 20 August 1932. The cars were all privately entered with minimal support from the factory. The book covers the arrival, practice, racing and the social aspects of the trip to Belfast. The title refers to the trials and tribulations of the MG drivers who had a number of mechanical failures and a couple of crashes as well as a 3rd and 10th place behind the class winning Rileys. The booklet, which is well illustrated with comtemporary photographs, is in remarkably good condition for its age although the centre page has now freed itself from the staples without damage. The sequel to this booklet, "The Luck Of THe Game Again" by Barre Lyndon is also available. Inventory # M4445.

Condition: Very Good. Archive concerning research material and letters from contributors for 'The M.G. Log'. First published in 1993 by Souvenir Press. Editorial consultant: Jean Cook. American edition published by Greenwich Editions in 1997. Contributors were Peter Haining (Octagonal Fever), Jean Cook (Cecil Kimber's daughter), Cyril Mellor (Vintage MG's), Barry Foster (Racer of Classic MG's), David Saunders (The Immortal 'T' type MG), Geoff Shirt (MGB - World's Most Popular Sports Car), Anna Guerrier (The MG Fast Ladies) and Mike Allison (Restoring MG's). A couple of pages of Haining's handwritten notes. Five typescripts of different versions varying in length (one or two with duplicated pages) of Haining's piece, with corrections. Two typescripts (one incomplete) of Jean Cook's piece on her father Cecil Kimber, with corrections, plus a further heavily corrected paragraph about Cecil Kimber. Draft typescript of Mike Allison's contribution. pp. 9. with corrections. Typed description of M.G. models. Typed Contents page. Typed outline for photographs for the M.G. Log. pp. 9. Typed outline of content. pp. 6. Both with a few corrections. Handwritten photocopy of '"Old Number One" and the Vintage Years' by Cyril Mellor. pp. 16 (one page article included). Typed piece by Stirling Moss. pp. 6. Photocopy of article by Cecil Kimber. pp. 12, a few taped in. Typed list of useful addresses and other information. Two typed lists of books about cars. pp. 10. 10 photographs of MGs, Jean Cook features in several of them, 5 slides, 3 transparencies all of MGs. Accompanied by photocopies of photographs. Letters dating from 1992 include typed signed letters and in some cases a photocopy of the letter has been attached and about 15 photocopies of Haining's letters introducing himself and outlining the content of the book and what is required. Typed blurb for the book from Haining to Tessa Harrow at Souvenir Press. Typed signed letters to Haining from Anna Guerrier, racing driver, Jean Cook, daughter of Cecil Kimber, the inventor of the first M.G. (4 letters, full of assistance), Ernest Hecht at Souvenir Press confirming Haining's contract, Philip Jennings, historian of the Early MG Society, Cyril Mellor of 14/40 fame, Mike Allison, M.G. specialist, Don Hayter, Bob Patterick, an old friend who drove MGs, and Geoff Shirt, his letter includes his photocopied article on the 5th Kimber Birthday Run. Jennings and Hayter declined to contribute to the book. Other material includes a returned cheque for a back issue of Classic Cars not available and a page from Thoroughbred & Classic Cars. Letters dating from 1993 include two lengthy handwritten letters to Haining from David Saunders, editor of the T Register Yearbook for the MG Car Club with Haining's photocopied replies and his photocopied introductory letter (dated December 1992). Four photocopied articles also attached. Fax from Haining to Ernest Hecht about payment. Photocopy of Haining's introductory letter to Glynn Guisti and a photcopy of a letter to Cyril Mellor. Typed signed letter to Haining from Jean Cook with handwritten message about the irreplaceable photographs she has sent him. Typed signed letter to Haining from Richard Monk, the MG Owners Club General Manager, enclosing transparencies. Typed signed letter to Haining from Jean Cook enclosing the final draft of her piece with a handwritten message at the end. Typed signed letter to Haining from Cyril Mellor. A handwritten letter to Jean Cook from Edith Pargeter (Ellis Peters) the detective author who admits she doesn't drive, handwritten at top 'To Peter with compliments Dennis.' Typed signed letter to Haining from The Souvenir Press enclosing a questionnaire from Jean Cook which is present. Handwritten letter to Anna [Guerrier] from Liz [Wigg] at Rivers Fletcher Motor Racing enclosing photographs. Handwritten letters to Haining from Jean Cook and David Saunders and a handwritten card from Cyril Mellor. Fax from Tessa Harrow. Typed signed letter from Haining to Greg Allport, Rover Cars concerning use of the MG logo with faxed reply. Memo to Tessa Harrow. Typed signed letter from Haining to Ernest Hecht with names and addresses of contributors. Typed signed letter to Haining from Mike Allison. Fax from Radio Suffolk to Ernest Hecht. Undated handwritten letter to Haining from David Saunders enclosing his piece and two handwritten postcards from Barry Foster. Letters from 1994 include some of Haining's handwritten notes, stapled photocopies of Haining's letters to some of the contributors and others concerning the return of photographs etc., together with typed signed letters from Jean Cook (handwritten postscript and earlier list of photographs), Anna Guerrier (2 letters), Ron Cover, Geoff Shirt and Cyril Mellor. No response from Barry Foster included. Other material includes photocopies of articles, photocopied excerpts from publications, cuttings from magazines and newspapers and other items relating to cars. Very good. Very good.

Softbound. Condition: Good (Average)(3). Original pages extract Re. C. Kimber oaoer CRA1917 Illustrated by: .