Bruce Halford's race helmet, overalls and associated racewear,

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Bruce Halford's race helmet, overalls and associated racewear,

used in the late 1970s during Bruce's Historic Grand Prix racing events, comprising Everoak open-face helmet, in white, with 'Everoak' stickers to front and rear, and ACU and two safety standard stickers to cheeks, scratched and with race wear, interior padding worn and distressed, with felt drawstring helmet bag embroidered 'Bruce Halford' and HGPCA emblem, a set of Linea Sport race overalls in blue, with maker's patches to arms and driver's embroidered name patch with blood type to left breast, together with a pair of brown leather palmed driving gloves, two pairs of race boots including a 'Westover' pair by Edward Lewis, a pair of rubber overshoes, a white undershirt, and a pair of white driving socks, together with Bruce Halford's personal carrying case with name to lid, worn condition.
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Footnotes

Bruce Halford (1931-2001) competed in various Formula 1 and other race events including 8 World Championship Grand Prix races from 1956-1960, driving Prince Bira's Maserati 250F in 1956-1957, and later Lotus 16 and Cooper T45 and T51 cars and at Le Mans 1957-1961 in the Lister Jaguar, Jaguar D-Type, and Cooper Coventry Climax, and in Lotus 16 in Historic racing events in the mid-1970s.

Halford's obituary in The Daily Telegraph described him as "one of the last of the 1950s' select band of private-entrant owner-drivers from the heyday of the classical front-engined Grand Prix car."

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