LETTERS
Letters to the Bulletin on any topic connected with Brooklands – past, present or future, or about the BTM, are most welcome. Please send them to Chris Bass via
chris@chrisbass.co.uk or 2 Riverside Close, Brookwood, Woking, Surrey GU24 0AP.
Aero Clubhouse Dear Chris, Further to the Bulletin article ‘Brooklands Aero Clubhouse’ (September-October 2015), I don’t know if you realise that during the 1950s it was the Vickers Armstrong’s apprentice office and training school. I, like many others, took their apprenticeship examination in that building and was offered a five-year apprenticeship as a ‘Turner and Skilled Machinist’. The room at the top of the control tower was
the office of the Apprentice Supervisor, a Mr Duckett, and if you were called over to see him you had to walk from the factory across the old Track and Runway, woe betide you if you had your hands in your pockets on that long walk. Eventually a purpose-built school was established on the factory side of the Track in a position were the offices are now built near the Campbell Gate.
Best regards, John Burch, Banstead
Maserati Quattroporte MkII prototype
Dear Diana, Steve Beresford (a Brooklands Trust Member) noted with interest the article in the July-August Bulletin on the recent Auto Italia event and one of the Maseratis displayed there. There is a 1974 MkII Quattroporte prototype on display at our local museum (the Isle of Man Motor Museum) that Steve thought may be of interest to your members. He asked me to take some pictures and send you a little information on it.
This car is the original prototype built in 1974 and was displayed at the Paris and Turin Motor Shows that year. It features special options that weren’t used on the production cars, such as magnesium wheels and a digital dashboard. The car was found in Germany by the current owner and required a significant amount of work to get it roadworthy as it hadn’t moved for many years. It always amazes us how small the steering wheel is, given the size of the car!
Kind regards, Steve Glynn, via e-mail
1974 Maserati prototype at the Isle of Man Museum (Steve Glynn).
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