RACING MOTORIST'S LUCKY ESCAPE: CAR UPSIDE DOWN IN LAKE.—When his midget car skidded off the course and overturned into the lake at the finish of a race at the Lake Bryndwr circuit on Saturday the driver, D. Rutherford, escaped with a ducking, and his car was recovered. In the picture on the left Rutherford’s car, on the inside, is out of control and about to mount the bank which drops eight or 10 feet to the lake. RIGHT: How the car landed. Rutherford was thrown clear before his car hit the water.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26522, 10 September 1951, Page 3
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92RACING MOTORIST'S LUCKY ESCAPE: CAR UPSIDE DOWN IN LAKE.—When his midget car skidded off the course and overturned into the lake at the finish of a race at the Lake Bryndwr circuit on Saturday the driver, D. Rutherford, escaped with a ducking, and his car was recovered. In the picture on the left Rutherford’s car, on the inside, is out ofcontrol and about to mount the bank which drops eight or 10 feet to the lake. RIGHT: How the car landed. Rutherford was thrown clear before his car hit the water. Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26522, 10 September 1951, Page 3
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