Modern Motor Racing

The Scottish Milk Marketing Board has issued the following announcement :— “Champion racing driver Jim Clark competed at Ingliston’s Scottish Milk Race meeting on August 14th—driving one of the electric milk vehicles! Mr. Clark, the well-known Border farmer, telephoned the race organisers requesting permission to take part in this novel event. ‘I have never driven one of these electric vehicles before and would certainly like to have a go,’ said Jim. Arrangements were put in hand to give him the use of one of these 30-cell battery milk floats with a top speed of 18 m.p.h.” Was there, we wonder, the inevitable starting money—perhaps a bottle of milk ?