Here's a painting by Roy Nockolds sold by Bonhams in 2008; the catalogue read: “Scientific in the Alps returning from trial, oil on board, depicting what is believed to be an early Saab concept car driving through a winter scape, signed and dated 1959.” So no points for them!
Ray Barrington Brock was by any standards remarkable, a fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry, president of the Scientific Instrument Makers Association, chief air-raid warden for the City of London during the second world war, father of the English wine industry. He raced motorcycles at Brooklands, drove an HRG coupe (for which he designed the aerodynamic bodywork) in 1948 and 1949. In his 50s he competed in the Cresta Run and became a member of the British bobsleigh team, And much else besides. According to his Times obituary, “He brought irrepressible energy to all his enterprises. some of it anarchically misdirected.”
The Scientific was an interesting machine with the Jupiter engine just ahead of the rear axle, driving forwards to a preselector gearbox with a shaft back to the differential, an idea later used in the ill-fated Rover P6BS. Sadly, the Scientific was written off shortly after Barrington Brock sold it.
