A group of eight Archie Butterworth motorsport trophies
£300 - £500
A group of eight Archie Butterworth motorsport trophies,
including the Poole Trophy 1950, Hants & Berks Motor Club etc., many named to Butterworth; sold together with a framed Bugatti Owners Club paddock pass for the Prescott National Open Hill Climb 3rd May 1959 (9 items)
Archibald James Butterworth (1912-2005) was born in Waterford, Ireland. He was an inventor and racing motorist who, in 1948, designed and constructed the A.J.B. Special, a four-wheel drive Formula One car.
As a driver Butterworth won the Brighton Speed Trials in 1949 and 1951. After a serious accident in 1951, he gave up competition, but continued to supply race car engines of his own design, notably to Bill Aston for the Aston Butterworth Grand Prix car and Archie Scott Brown for the Elva-Butterworth sports racing car.