LAURENCE POMEROY, son of the famous designer who put his name to many early Vauxhalls including the Prince Henry and 30/98, donated the Trophy that bears his name to the VSCC in 1946, a year before he became their President.
The Trophy itself is a model of a 1914 Vauxhall 4½ litre Grand Prix car constructed by the late master model maker, Mr. Rex Hayes, while the rules, designed to establish ‘the best kind of fast touring car’, were created by Pomeroy and Cecil Clutton, that wonderful Edwardian character who continued to race well into his eighties and always with the same car.
Competitors had to complete a series of tasks as follows: first came the one-hour High Speed Trial, followed by the steering test, and quarter mile sprint. On the Sunday crews drove to Cheltenham where a road section through the Cotswolds had to be completed using as little fuel as possible. The winner was created from adding together the total marks lost.
Today the event still carries on the tradition and as William Boddy stated not that long ago, “It’s still a reasonable way of arriving at the conclusion as to which vintage or modern car would make the right choice.”
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