BROOKLANDS ALL STARS RETURN


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Left to right: Bob Webb – soprano, tenor and alto saxophones; Andy Lawrence – double bass; Denny Ilett – trumpet and vocals; Tony Pitt – banjo and, for the first time, Dave Hewitt – trombone and baritone (a sort of euphonium) (Nigel Brecknell).


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he Brooklands All Stars proved as popular as ever when they returned to entertain on


Friday 3rd March. As usual the Blue Bird Room and Members’ Bar were packed with people enjoying the music and giving enthusiastic


applause for the players.


The All Stars will be back later in the year, in the meantime there will be piano music in the Members’ Bar on Fridays 26th May and 30th June.


Nigel Brecknell


FRANCO-BROOKLANDS CARS STAR AT RETROMOBILE


he organisers of the Paris Retromobile exhibition always manage to come up with rare


and unusual exhibits.


Brooklands regulars visiting the 2017 show would however have seen something familiar – the 1927 Grand Prix Delage recently loaned to the Museum by Miles Collier, which was accompanied by staff members Allan Winn, David Nagle, Steve Castle and Robin Voice – but they would never have seen it with four of its five sister cars, a unique gath- ering to celebrate a special 90th anniversary. This spectacle is due to be repeated at the Brooklands Double Twelve Motorsport Festival and Goodwood Festival of Speed.


Delage’s golden year was 1927 when it won the Grand


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The Miles Collier Delage on display at Brooklands (Gareth Tarr).


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