Miles Rothwell's 500cc

Prompted by a recent article in Motor Sport on the 500cc Formula Three, a reader sent in a photograph last month of Miles Rothwell’s special which was built around 1934 for an attempt on 500cc records but which, in the event, was crashed by a journalist before it could be used in anger.  Our correspondent stated that the driver lay prone and in this he was partly right. Rothwell’s original intention was for the driver to be prone, but by the time the car was finished, a more conventional seating position had been adopted as this photograph from the Geoffrey Goddard collection shows. Of the five men in the photograph, we have been able to identify only one: Eric Fernilough is the man wearing the cap.