Joe Fry

Herausgegeben:Miller, Frederic P.; Vandome, Agnes F.; McBrewster, John

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Joe Fry 26 October 1915, Chipping Sodbury 29 July 1950, Blandford Camp was a British racing driver and member of the Fry''s Chocolate family. He became the primary driver for the highly successful Shelsley Special Freikaiserwagen, created by his cousin David Fry and Hugh Dunsterville, with help from Dick Caesar. The original car was built at Cambridge in 1937 and featured a Blackburne engine. Joe set a number of hill records during the late 30s. Joe Fry set an unofficial outright record at Prescott when he climbed in 47.62 seconds in the 1,100 c.c. Freikaiserwagen, on 27 August 1938. At the outbreak of World War Two he held both the blown and unblown 1,100 c.c. records at Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb in 41.52 and 42.58 seconds respectively. Fry finished second in class, for racing cars up to 1,100 c.c., in the Freikaiserwagen at the Brighton Speed Trials in1947. David Fry drove the car to the class victory in Brighton the following year. Joe Fry won the class in Brighton in 1949. At Blandford hillclimb on 28 May 1949 J.G. Fry made f.t.d. in the 650 lb., twin Marshall-blown V-twin Freikaiserwagen." His winning time was 31.13 seconds.

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• Verlag: Alphascript Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 68
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm
• ISBN-13: 9786131645891
• ISBN-10: 6131645892
• Artikelnr.: 29820527