A ‘5-minutes-to-go’ timer-alarm clock, by Adamson Green & Co, Felling-on-Tyne, set to strike at minute intervals and thought to be that used by the Aintree starting grid marshals to regulate the sounding of the klaxon horns that warned team personnel when to leave the grid and drivers and mechanics when to start their engines; together with an elasticated armband marked B.A.R.C. 1955 OFFICIAL, an Aintree Circuit Fire Precaution Notice detailing fire extinguisher points around the circuit and two other Aintree public notices, along with a silvered band taken from the plinth of the ‘Daily Telegraph’ Cup, inscribed with the 1954 to 1956 race winners’ details: S.Moss, Roy Salvadori and H.Gould, respectively (6)
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