1908 French Grand Prix, Austin Crossing the Line
by Charlie Ross
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1908 French Grand Prix, Austin Crossing the Line
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Charlie Ross
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John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara, GBE, MC, PC (1884 – 1964) was an English aviation pioneer and politician who served in the Government of Winston Churchill during The Second World War as Minister of Aircraft Production.
He had spent university holidays working for Charles Rolls as an unpaid mechanic, and became an apprentice at Darracq in Paris where he learned to drive.
In 1907 he won the Circuit des Ardennes in a Minerva. In 1908 he finished 18th driving for the Austin team at the French Grand Prix, the race being won by Lautenschlager in a Mercedes.
He then learned to fly and became the first resident Englishman to make an officially recognized aeroplane flight in England on 2 May 1909, at Shellbeach on the Isle of Sheppey with flights of 450 ft, 600 ft, and 1500 ft.
With Charles Rolls, he would later make the first ascent in a spherical gas balloon, which had been made by Short brothers at Battersea.
On 8 March 1910, Moore-Brabazon became the first person to qualify as a pilot in the United Kingdom and was awarded Royal Aero Club Aviator's Certificate number 1. However, only four months later, his friend Charles Rolls was killed in a flying accident and Moore-Brabazon gave up flying
His own motor car also bore what might have been the first 'personalised' number-plate 'FLY 1'.
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