MG Memories
Above: 1955 Season, Dickie Green (second from left) joined BMC/MG.
Dickie was involved with the private owners preparation & support. He was also at Le Mans in 1955 with the team cars.
Here they are ready to depart for LeMans with the new prototype 1.5-Litre cars.
Above: 1955 LeMans MG line-up with the 1.5L (82.5 bhp), alloy body cars.
1955 Driver line up: Ken Miles - Johnny Lockett, Dick Jacobs - Joe Flynn & Ted Lund - Hans Waeffler.
Lockett/Miles finished 12th overall and 5th in 1.5L class, while Lund/Waeffler car was 17th and 6th in class.
Left: LeMans 1955 from the MG pit counter; Dickie at left, before the start of the race. Many will recall what happen that year... you can see the grand stands in the background.
Above: LeMans 1955; the remains of the Dick Jacobs' MG...
Rolled and burnt at the White House. Dick was injured and sadly never raced again.
Above: Car 64 of Tim Lund pits for some damage control... 1955
Left: LeMans, France 1955.
In January '56 BMC entered & supported
numerous cars in the famed Monte Carlo Rally. Dickie Green and Dougie Watts
flew to Lisbon to see off a number of cars, amongst these were Austin A40s
(which could be fitted with twin rear wheels), two Austin A35, MG
Magnet's (steel bodied), and Riley Pathfinder's. Once
the cars had departed, Dickie & Dougie were to fly to Paris, but Paris was
fogged in, thus they flew to London. While searching for a cabbie they found
Harry Sherwood (Doreen's father) waiting for a fair. Harry took them home
for dinner, then onto Victoria Station where they caught the train for
Paris. Upon their arrival they found the MG Magnet waiting for them, the
rest of the team having already departed for Reims, where the cars would
come through. Marcus Chambers (and Mrs.), along with Doreen Sherwood were
already at Reims getting things ready. With a Police escort, and speeding
over the snow and ice covered French roads, Dickie & Dougie arrived
only moments before the first cars arrived! Then it was on to Monte Carlo
and the finish. Dickie left MG's in January 1956 after the Monte Carlo
Rally to emigrate to the USA... Ken Miles was Dickies "sponsor" into
America.