D P M Hall

Derek Hall will be sadly missed in VSCC, MAC, and motoring circles generally. He became interested in cars when sharing digs with Hugh Conway and Alan Whiddington while training to be an estate agent, and he owned Frazer Nash BMK 104 for many years. A Major during the war, he was evacuated from Dunkirk after walking 110 miles to the beachhead. He then joined his father’s estate agency business and motoring became his hobby. He won with Ian Connell an Alpine Cup with a Singer in 1934 and had a go in the Limerick GP, after which his family would jokingly claim him to be a Grand Prix driver. . . He became Captain of the FN Section of the VSCC for a term, and covered 210,958 road miles in his “Chain Gang” Frazer Nash. For business use an Alvis sufficed. He sailed his 12-ton gaff-rigged cutter “Esterel” until, at 70, he retired to a property near Evesham in which the family had lived for generations. Our sympathy to his second wife, Rosemary and his two sons. W B