Lagonda, Staines, Middlesex
A Lagonda M45R Rapide with a Meadows engine won at Le Mans in June 1935. Just a week later Lagonda was pronounced saved from receivership by Alan P Good and W O joined Good's new Lagonda board of directors as technical director. W O moved, with the majority of the Rolls-Royce racing department staff, to Lagonda. There, W O again went racing. Unable to persuade Harry Grylls to join his engineering staff at Staines W O did obtain Stewart Tresilian's services from February 1936. Tresilian brought Frank Stark and Reg Ingham with him. Donald Bastow joined them.
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