1938 trophy won by Peter Whitehead in his E.R.A. at the Rob Roy Hillclimb in Australia, a historic small silver tankard engraved L.C.C.A., ROB ROY CL

1938 trophy won by Peter Whitehead in his E.R.A. at the Rob Roy Hillclimb in Australia, a historic small silver tankard engraved L.C.C.A., ROB ROY CLIMB (4), 13.6.38, P.N.WHITEHEAD, 1st CLASS 3 (C), the base underside stamped PARAMOUNT PLATE BEST EPNS A1 QUALITY 6069, standing 12cm., 4?in. high Organised by the Light Car Club of Australia, the Rob Roy Hillclimb in Victoria was then used for nine Australian Hillclimb Championships, the first of which was won by Peter Whitehead in his E.R.A. R10B in 1938. This English combination also won that year's Australian Grand Prix, the first to take place at Bathurst (the Mount Panorama circuit then unpaved), although several attempts to take the Australian Land Speed Record the same year proved unsuccessful. After WWII Peter Whitehead continued with E.R.A. before becoming the first privateer to own and race a Formula 1 Ferrari in which he won the 1949 Czechoslovakian Grand Prix at Brno. Later he went on to score Jaguar's first win in the Le Mans 24-hour race sharing with Peter Walker in 1951.