Richard Lane, archivist of the UK Amilcar Register comes up with an intersting issue regarding two drivers of the depicted streamlined offset Amilcar C6 photographed at Avus in 1933. Miss M.J. Mackonocie and Henken Widengren. After 1932 no traces of her . After 1935 no traces of Widengren. Before that most is known.
This the history: In July 1928 the famous Brooklands driver Vernon Balls came 4th overall and won the 1100CC class in the famous JCC 200 Mile Race at Brooklands driving his recently imported offset C6 Amilcar. Only weeks later, a novice driver, Miss M.J. Maconochie started racing the same car, also mostly at Brooklands, very successfully until September that year after which she disappeared from the motor racing scene but was later reported to be marrying a Mr Parry and settling in the County of Rutland. Subsequently in 1932 she was also reported to be marrying a Major Warren Mackenzie DSO, after which I can find no further mention about what...... (see Read More) .
(main photo courtesy National Media Museum/SSPL )
P.S. come this weekend to Montlhéry to see a full fleet of Amilcar C6's plus some 100 more vintage racing cars and motorbikes testing the old banked circuit just south of Paris. Prizes for most original car, motorbike and more presented by PreWarCar