Two Silverstone race programmes, May and August 1930,

The Beaulieu Sale: Collectors' Motor Cars & Automobilia|5 September 2025, 10:30 BST|Beaulieu, National Motor Museum

Two Silverstone race programmes, May and August 1930,

each bound with later hard-backed covers, comprising Grand Prix d'Europe 13 May 1950 and International Trophy Race, August 26 1950; together with John Dudley: British Road Racing, in similar hard-back covers; John Eason Gibson 'Motor Racing 1946', 4to; a programme for the first post-War Indianapolis 500, May 30 1946, 4to; Roseman & Demand 'The Big Race', 4to; and Hans Liska 'Mercedes-Benz: Automobile and Fashion, published 1953, cord-tied hard backed covers, 4to.
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SALEROOM NOTICE: Please Note that the two Silverstone race programmes offered in this Lot are for 1950, and not 1930 as printed in the main title. The description in the subtext is accurate.

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