Alfred Godfrey Imhof (6 May 1911 – 27 August 1963) was a British racing driver in trials, rallies and hill climbing. He was the winner of the 2nd
RAC Rally
Wales Rally GB was the most recent iteration of the United Kingdom's premier international motor rally, which ran under various names since the first event held in 1932. It was consistently a round of the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) cal ...
that was held in 1952, driving an
Allard-Cadillac J2.
Career
Before the war, he teamed up in trial with Ben Richardson and Michael Lawson, in the Candidi Provocatores trials team, on a 1936 LM Speed Model (chassis BBY 333).
In the immediate post-war period, he became an industrial designer at
Allard and took part in the design of the K1 (two-seater), L1 (4-seater) models, and especially the competition J1, which he owned and competed Personally from 1946 to 1949.
He then became a London-based industrialist, owner of the
Gramophone Company
The Gramophone Company Limited was a British phonograph manufacturer and record label, founded in April 1898 by Emil Berliner. It was one of the earliest record labels.
The company purchased the His Master's Voice painting and trademark righ ...
's recorder factory, built in
Oxford Street
Oxford Street is a major road in the City of Westminster in the West End of London, running between Marble Arch and Tottenham Court Road via Oxford Circus. It marks the notional boundary between the areas of Fitzrovia and Marylebone to t ...
in the 1950s.
Family
His sister, Barbara Kathleen ("Betty"), married Major Arthur Frederick Frayling,
OBE
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, chairman of the
Hudson's Bay fur auction house in London and of the International Fur Trade Federation; their sons are
Nicholas Frayling, Dean of Chichester from 2002 to 2014, and the educationalist and writer Sir
Christopher Frayling
Sir Christopher John Frayling (born 25 December 1946) is a British educationalist and writer, known for his study of popular culture. He was awarded a knighthood for Services to Art and Design Education in the 2001 New Year Honours.
Early lif ...
.
Sir Christopher Frayling profile
, static1.squarespace.com. Accessed 19 January 2023.
Rally results
References
External links
eWRC
English rally drivers
1911 births
1963 deaths
People from St Giles, London
20th-century English sportsmen
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