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2 unusual facts about Alta Car and Engineering Company


Alta Car and Engineering Company

Once again they were built to order, and supplied to Geoffrey Crossley and Joe Kelly respectively.

In 1950 he set a number of speed records over 50 miles, 50 km and 100 km at the Montlhéry circuit.


Hersham and Walton Motors

Then HWM owners George Abecassis and John Heath went racing together from 1946 and in 1948 they built a streamlined sports racing car on the chassis of a Sports Alta, and thus embarked upon the construction of racing cars and racing sports cars at their motor works in Walton-on-Thames, England.

Limerick grand prix

Other entries came from less well-known manufacturers such as Adler, Alta, Lea Francis, Riley, Sunbeam and Frazer Nash.


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