Années 1920 - 1930

The 5 litre Graham Paige of Marendaz in 1930.

A general view of the road circuit French Grand Prix, 1931.

French Grand Prix, 1931 : Ferranti's old Targa Florio Peugeot leads Dreyfu's Maserati.

Campari (centre) after finishing in second place.

George Eyston in the MG which was the first 750cc car to attain 100mph in 1931. EAD Eldridge (in hat and coat) stands behind the car.

George Eyston (in cockpit) and EAD Eldridge with the unsupercharged Riley Nine that averaged 108,11mph for an hour in 1931.

Eyston progresses more sedately, on a twenty four-hour run with a 10 h.p Singer.

George Eyston's Panhard-Levassor beaks the world's hour record in 1932.

Eyston's Panhard-Levasso on the banking.

Mrs Gwenda Stewart in the Austin Seven with which shr broke Class H Records, September 1931.

George Eyston's straight-eight Delage in 1932.

John Cobb in the Napier-Railton, 1933. The Brooklands silencers were not needed at Linas-Montlhéry.

Murray Jamieson in the Austin Seven which beat Eyston's MG records, 1933.

La Petite Rosalie- the Yacco Citroen, 1933.

One of its record certificates (The Yacco Citroen) .

145.94 m.p.h , 28 May 1933 : the Derby Special sets a lap record for the banked track. Mrs Stewart in crash Helmet. Leaning over engine, bare-headed, in suit : Mr Douglas Hawkes. On his left, in overalls, Mr Fred Cann. Note the propeller used to drive an auxiliary oil scavenge pump.

Mrs Stewart's Derby Special after its crash, 1934.

Mrs Stewart, Fred cann and the Derby-Maserati, 1935.

Frenc Grand Prix, 1935 : Caracciola comes through a chicane with his Mercédès-Benz.

George Eyston attacks the World's forty-eight-hour record in the 2 litre Hotchkiss, 1935.