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for their maiden works effort at La Sarthe.32 Geoffrey Healey recounted the preparations: “Tom Kenney, our French agent, made all the arrangements, including booking us a Chateau outside Le Mans, where Nigel Mann and Mort Morris-Goodall were based. The team consisted of the drivers, with their wives doing the victualling and time keeping, Tom Kenney running the pits, Francois Cueillièr doing the refueling, and Roger and I as the mechanics, assisted by John Saxton and Peter Thornhill.”
With Harry Costley, Nash’s representative in the United Kingdom, scheduled to attend, Warwick needed an impressive performance at La Sarthe to stoke Kenosha’s continued enthusiasm for their collaborative arrangement. In order to achieve the best possible result, Donald Healey hired two veteran drivers, Tony Rolt and Duncan Hamilton, having also considered and rejected Stirling Moss for lacking sufficient long-distance experience to hire for such an important race.33
Born the fourth child of Brigadier Stuart Rolt CB, who had commanded a regiment in the
(ABOVE) Duncan Hamilton (left) and Tony Rolt (right) with the Nash-Healey prototype prior to their departure for night practice at La Sarthe. (The Donald Healey Collection at the Audrain Automobile Museum)
(LEFT) The event program for the 1950 24 Hours of Le Mans. (MRP Covers)
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