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HOW C':"HTf_1' I firr:':.'J'zen' up aft.-:r me accfderrr in practice at Broakiands in I922. If burs! a lyre, Mr tire parapet of the Track, slid do m:
the Home bankfrxg, dc-rnmfl-‘shed a wooden .-‘ma’, currirrg :21?’ the fingers of an oflfcfaf as it did’ so, tors of,’ 1'1: front axle, d1'.rcard'ed fr:
m£c‘ha.rrEc. and errdrrd up as .rJ':01m, HIE 01?‘-5:'da= tyre .-"mvf::g left the rim. Zbormvskf, stiff in the driving seat, was uninjured and CiI£rr_v
was re-bm‘!r. (Photo: Mcntagu Motor Museum}


 

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Chilly Iprtfffrrg up at the

and of Hm course, dur.-"Hg {he I923 S:Jm':':sea Speed Trials.

(Photo: M-zmtagu Motor Museum}

 


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Tony Arnold recalls a motoring legend 

Car that inspired
a book and film’

hnL:5epnrI:y guests in the ga.r:gea.'n|:l
lel ‘Lb:-In chnccs-e from line £anra.sI.Ic
group I:-fears.

‘I114.’-3-* cu-Llld have 3 Ben, Har-
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decision: had been made |J1I:.fu.n
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T11urewou1db-L-amadn-u:EI.r:I
Dover. than into Deal and back
home by I-'53’ of the villiges.

"l"he Count compcu-d Ln I111!‘
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ONE of [he maul famous racing
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Deal.

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Peter Harris-mayes at the wheel with Lt Col Clive Gallop who helped Count Zb0ronslC
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build the car.


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Jurby,


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Outside Negresco Hotel, Nice, January 1922. Count Zborowski at the wheel with Lt Col
Clive Gallop.


Outside Negresco Hotel, Nice, January 1922. Count Zborowski at the wheel with Lt Col
Clive Gallop.

Chm‘, Bqng Bqna ll ‘Ind Mercedes 28/95 with the foothills oflhe Atlas Mountains.
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Chitty Bang Bang 1] and Mercedes 28/95 with the foothills of the Atlas Mountains.

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Chitty Bang Bang II in front with the Count and his wife Violet. Also Mercedes 28/95
two seater and luggage platform. Taken in Algeria en route for Biskra. Note the snow.