A Small Collection of Unique, Motorsport-Related Correspondence

• A typed letter from Field-Marshall Montgomery of Alamein to J.Dugdale, Asst. Editor, Autocar  dated 21/05/1948 explaining why the Army were not prepared to allow Motor Racing at Donington Park. Signed in ink by Montgomery
• A typed letter on Owen Racing Organisation headed paper, dated 30/08/1954, to Herr Alfred Neubauer, Manager of the Mercedes-Grand Prix Team, from Raymond Mays CBE of ERA and BRM fame, thanking Neubaeur for releasing Fangio for two UK races in a BRM. Signed in ink by Raymond Mays.
• A signed letter from 'Officina Alfieri Maserati' to Stirling Moss of 20 William IV Street, dated 25/11/1955, offering Stirling a contract for 1956, complete with Stirling's original two-page contract signed in ink by Alfred E. Moss (Stirling's father and business partner) and the Managing Director of Maserati.
• A copy of four page contract, dated 29/05/1958, between Vandervell Products Ltd. and Stirling Moss Ltd. of 20 William IV Street confirming Moss as the 'official first driver' with the Vanwall Grand Prix Team for the 1958 season. It's signed in ink by Guy Anthony Vandervell and witnessed by his Solicitor. It's not signed by Moss as we believe that it's his copy.

Vanwall won six of that season's 11 races, with Moss and Tony Brooks taking three each. They won the Constructors' Championship with Moss being pipped to the Drivers' Championship by one point to Hawthorn.