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At that time, almost all of Elden's
considerable production was destined for the Americas,
their labour force was fulltime working on their exports, and it was
more than they could handle to run works racing teams. So I arranged
a meeting with Brian and his brother Peter.
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At this meeting, I agreed
to buy an Elden Mk
10a Formula Ford, in parts, for our own assembly, and also
agreed to take over something which they had started, in a very
small way - their Formula 3 Works Team. |
They had a Formula 3
chassis newly completed, (see above picture) which was under
testing, with Mike Catlow as chief constructor and driver. The
car had two Holbay F3 engines one belonging to Design Formula, and
the other belonging to Mike Catlow. |
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So I took over the running of this car and I got
them to supply me with the parts for a second Formula 3 car which my
Mitford Team put together. For the second chassis, I then bought
another 2 new Holbay engines. Mike Catlow brought his own engine to
our Team when he joined us. So we had two chassis and 4 engines. I
later bought another Holbay engine from Stanley Matthews Racing,
making 5 in all. We used Hewland gearboxes, of which we had 2
supplied with the cars, and we bought 2 more. As with any teams with
serious intent, you carry enough spares to replace absolutely any
amount of replacements which might be needed. - See 'Transporters'.
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