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| Extra Details : Seven Days and Seven Nights by Keith Woodcock. | ||
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| *The value given for each signature has been calculated by us based on the historical significance and rarity of the signature. Values of many pilot signatures have risen in recent years and will likely continue to rise as they become more and more rare. | |
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 Herbert Hadley (deceased) *Signature Value : £65 | Herbert Lewis Hadley - always known as Bert was born in 1910. In 1930, he was selected to join the elite Racing and Experimental Department within the famous Longbridge Works. He became the number 1 team driver. He was personally involved with all the competition cars, particularly with Murray Jamieson and the O.H.C. single-seaters. As a driver, he was equally effective whether up Shelsley Walsh Hill or on the circuits at Brooklands, Crystal Palace or Donington Park. Had not the war intervened, Bert was all set to become a full-time professional driver with a continental team. In 1950, he was asked to partner Leslie Johnson, who hed known at E.R.A. before the war, in Jaguars first appearance at Le Mans. They were 3rd when the clutch failed. For the next five years he drove in the 'TT', Mille Miglia and at Le Mans again for the Jowett, Healey and Triumph works' teams. In 1952 he was in the famous '7 days and 7 nights' endurance run at Montlhery in the XK120 Coupe LWK 707, alongside Moss, Fairman and Johnson. Herbert Lewis Hadley died in 1993. |
 Jack Fairman (deceased) *Signature Value : £55 | Jack Fairman was born in Surrey in March 1913. Formula One racing driver. Part of the team who in August 1952, broke three world records and five class records in a marathon seven day race in a Jaguar XK120. His best race result was fourth in the British Grand Prix. He drove a BRM in the 1957 British Grand Prix at Aintree and one of Bernie Ecclestones Connaughts in the '58 race. His final World Championship outing came in a private Cooper-Climax at Monza in 1961, although two years later - at the age of 50 - he drove one of Carel de Beauforts Ecurie Maarsbergen Porsches in the non-Championship City of Imola Grand Prix where he finished seventh. Sadly, Jack Fairman died 12th February 2002 in Rugby, Warwickshire. |
| Mortimer Morris-Goodall (deceased) *Signature Value : £50 | Mortimer Morris-Goodall - Motor Racing team manager, who along with Desmond Scannell, co-ordinated the record breaking team of Stirling Moss, Jak Fairman, Bert Hadley and Leslie Johnson in their Jaguar XK120. He was also a race driver, being invited to drive at Le Mans in 1933. Sadly, Mortimer Morris-Goodall has since passed away. |
 Sir Stirling Moss OBE (deceased) *Signature Value : £55 | During his professional career which started in 1949 and ended in a horrific and still unexplained crash at Goodwood on Easter Monday 1962, Moss drove 84 different types of automobiles in 495 events, finished in 366 of them and won an amazing 222 times. Stirling Moss died on 12th April 2020. |
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