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3 unusual facts about Francis Curzon


1933 Mannin Moar

On behalf of the drivers, Earl Howe wrote a letter to The Motor complaining that the rules were considered an embarrassment and would turn races from international events into second rate affairs.

Battersea South by-election, 1929

The by-election was held due to the succession to the peerage of the incumbent Conservative MP, Francis Curzon.

Bugatti Type 57

In 2008 the Bugatti Type 57S with chassis number 57502 built in 1937 with the Atalante coachwork for Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe was discovered in a private garage in Newcastle upon Tyne, having been stored untouched for 48 years and known about only by a select few people.



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