Topic: Puzzle #797 - Solved! Raymond Mays Special

[Otto Puzzell]

Raymond Mays Special
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[Otto Puzzell]

moved.......................................

[helen m]

thinking it might be something like a morgan, i was searching a site about morgans for clues and i think i found something among all the photos on a page about morgans racing at le mans in 1939:



a 1939 raymond mays?

[Otto Puzzell]

Indeed it is!

The Motor Racing Pioneer, Raymond Mays (1899 - 1980) and founder of ERA Cars, was known to be a fan of the products of the Standard Motor Company. He owned a number of Standards, including a 1932 Standard 20 and more significantly, a Drophead Coupé version of the Standard Flying V-Eight. Achieving some notariatary and motor racing fame post the second world war, he went on to found the BRM Motor Racing Team which rose  to significant Gran Prix success with Graham Hill during the sixties.

Mays tried his hand at manufacturing his own cars in the late thirties, the basis of these were the aforementioned V-Eight chassis and  engines that Mays purchased from Standard. It is known that 5 cars were produced, and the author has featured a Carlton bodied Drophead Coupé on this website previously  The other 4 were 4-seater Tourers, with R.E.A.L bodies It is also known that 4 of the Mays cars competed in the 1939 RAC Rally, one of them being piloted by Mays himself.

[grobmotorix]

Congratulations Helen!

This was the first step. Keep this pace!