British Car Field DAY-Milwaukee 09

[Tom Rynne]

Here's my pics from the nice showing we had here today.
Got to love the HRG's and the old MG iron,
Little Blue showed well in the relatively small Midget group. Lotso nice B's!
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[tomshobby]

Too bad it is on Father's Day. As much as I would like to meet LBC people from the Milwaukee area that day is for family.

 

[walshja]

Tom, what are HRGs?

Looks like it was a great day !!!

 

[bugimike]

Joe, the HRG is an LBC built (pretty much unaltered!)from 1935 to 1956 by H.R. "Dan" Godfrey who collaborated with Archie Frazer-Nash in 1910 to build the GN, arguably the first genuine sporting light car. HRGs were powered by a 1496cc ohv engine which produced 58hp @ 4500rpm. In a 1600lb car this produced a top speed of over 80mph and 0 to 50 mph in under 100 sec.s! They competed quite competitively at LeMans and in every type of competitive event from Trials, to hill-climbs and ralleying! A venerable British marque!

 

[Roger]

Joe, the HRG is an LBC built (pretty much unaltered!)from 1935 to 1956 by H.R. "Dan" Godfrey who collaborated with Archie Frazer-Nash in 1910 to build the GN, arguably the first genuine sporting light car. HRGs were powered by a 1496cc ohv engine which produced 58hp @ 4500rpm. In a 1600lb car this produced a top speed of over 80mph and 0 to 50 mph in under 100 sec.s! They competed quite competitively at LeMans and in every type of competitive event from Trials, to hill-climbs and ralleying! A venerable British marque!

Mike- just to add a bit. It was Ron Godfrey, not Dan, I believe. The initials HRG stood for Halford, Robins and Godfrey, not Godfrey alone.
They used bought-in engines and other major components, from Meadows and later Singer for the engines.