Birkin, Caracciola, Merz and eight other 1929 Ards TT driver signatures, included in four scrapbook pages dedicated to the 1928 and 1929 Irish Tourist

Birkin, Caracciola, Merz and eight other 1929 Ards TT driver signatures, included in four scrapbook pages dedicated to the 1928 and 1929 Irish Tourist Trophy races, one part signed by Tim Birkin, Rudolph Caracciola, Count Conelli, Leon Cushman, S.C.H. Davis, Glen Kidston, Otto Merz, R.J. Oats, Guilo Ramponi, Scrap Thistlethwayte and N. Watney, all contained in a large leather-bound volume compiled by a schoolboy during the 1920s, featuring clippings of topical articles, film stars, ocean liners, port traffic and sailing boats, along 74 small commercial photographs of the sights of London, some at night, a further 12 unusually taken from the air, plus 27 of the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley and 36 of Belfast and Newcastle, County Down, page size 28 by 22cm., 11 by 8in. Victory in the 1929 TT gave Caracciola and Mercedes revenge for their Le Mans 24-hours defeat by Birkin's Bentley. Interestingly, his team mate was long time Daimler-Benz employee, Otto Merz, who had witnessed the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo that began events that lead to the First World War, having been driving the second car in the motorcade.