Ken Wharton

Ken Wharton

KEN WHARTON d1957. British racing driver from Smethwick England. His World Championship Grand Prix debut was at the 1952 Swiss event (run to Formula 2 regulations) where he started from 13th position on the grid and finished 4th. He participated in a total of 15 World Championship Grands Prix (in privateer Frazer-Nash / Cooper / BRM / Vanwall) from which he scored three championship points. He won the British Hill Climb Championship every year from 1951 to 1954 and remains the only driver to have won four successive BHCC titles. On January 12th 1957 aged just 40, he was fatally injured when his Ferrari Monza crashed in a sports car race at the Ardmore Circuit in Auckland
 

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Ken Wharton Autograph

Reference Number. 14390C

£195.00

An original vintage 1950s autograph book page, clearly signed in ink by Ken Wharton

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Ken Wharton & Cliff Allison

Reference Number. 14390E

£195.00

An original vintage 1950s autograph book page, clearly signed in ink by Ken Wharton

Reverse of the page is signed by Cliff Allison

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Ken Wharton & Stirling Moss

Reference Number. 14382B

£195.00

An original vintage 1955 autograph book page, clearly signed in pencil by Ken Wharton

REVERSE of this page signed in ink by Stirling Moss

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Ken Wharton

Reference Number. 14309B

£245.00

A rare original vintage KLM Airways cardstock in-flight menu (dated November 16th 1956), clearly signed in ink on the inside by Ken Wharton

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