Two suitcases and assorted travel labels and pennants,

The Beaulieu Sale: Collectors' Motor Cars & Automobilia|1 September 2023, 11:00 BST|Beaulieu, National Motor Museum

Two suitcases and assorted travel labels and pennants,

the two canvas suitcases with leather handles and trim, 70cm wide, worn and stained throughout and applied with travel labels; offered together with a quantity of assorted unused paper travel labels for Cunard Line, Canadian Pacific; BOAC, Sabena, and BEA airlines; and hotels in various mainly European travel destinations including St Moritz, Copenhagen, Cannes, Lyon, Stockholm, Nice, Marseilles, Paris, Cortina, Sarajevo, Basel, Zurich, Nantes, Brussels, Vienna, Belfast, Dublin, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Dover, Hannover, Sanremo, The Hague, Ostend, Geneva, (many with multiples) and others; and a quantity of assorted cloth, felt, and other pennants for 1953 Tulpen-Rallye, Salzburg, Valencia, Venice, Tarragona, Zaragoza, Lake Como, St Tropez, Nice, Cannes, Rome, Padova, Bologna, and other mainly European travel destinations.
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Footnotes

Englishman Alfred Godfrey "Goff" Imhof (1911-1963) was of Swiss extraction and his wife Nina was Russian. He was a highly competitive British driver in hillclimbs, trials and rallies and was an automobile designer and engineer.

After leaving school, Goff studied architecture and throughout his life was passionate about cars, engineering and above all good design. He inherited and ran the family radio and gramophone business Imhofs in New Oxford Street, London and also established a factory manufacturing beautifully designed metal cabinets for precision instruments and the Imlok system for their assembly.

Before the war he drove in trials in a Singer then an MG. He teamed up with Ben Richardson and Michael Lawson in the 'Candidi Provocatores' trials team in a 1936 Singer LM Speed Model (BBY 333). At this time he also drove alongside Sydney Allard who became a good friend. During the war Goff continued running his businesses, contributing to the war effort and driving fire engines in The Blitz.

Post-war Goff became one of the greatest Allard enthusiasts and placed the initial order for the first production Allard car, a short wheelbase J1. He became a key contributor to Allard car design – the K1 (2 seater), L1 (4 seater) and especially the J1 in which he competed personally from 1946 to 1949. Acting as a consultant for the marque, in 1946 he and Nina took a white competition two seater Allard (HLP5) on a European promotional 'Grand Tour' (part sporting and part gastronomic). Goff's own account of the adventure featured in The Autocar issues of 22 and 29 November 1946. He was victorious with co driver Ken Hutchinson in the 1947 Lisbon Rally driving Allard J1 (HLP5) and again in 1949. In several rallies Raymond Baxter was Goff's co-driver. In 1951 Goff won a coveted Alpine Cup in the Alpine Rally. Most famously driving his Allard-Cadillac J2 with his sister Barbara Fraying as his co-driver he won the 2nd RAC International Rally of Great Britain in 1952.

After retiring from competitive motoring Goff and Nina organised several rallies for the London Motor Club. Goff would also continue running Imhofs music enterprise and his light engineering business.

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