Major A.T.G Gardner's Brooklands BARC 124.4MPH enamel badge

Major A.T.G Gardner's Brooklands BARC 124.4MPH enamel badge, unique 'speed labelled' badge, chrome plated eight colours of enamel, clear red for the 124.4 MPH plaque and red, cream, green, grey and three tones of blue enamel, with engraved markings to the reverse marked Major A.T.G.

Gardner M.C 27.8.36, 9.5cm high, mounted on a wooden base, with plaque as 'Presented by the Proprietors of the Brooklands Auto Racing Club, to Major ATG Gardner after having gained the 1100cc Outer Circuit Lap Record at 124.40 M.P.H.'. Major Alfred Thomas Goldie Gardner was one of Britain's most versatile racing drivers of the 1930s and 1940s, as well as a talented engineer. At the outbreak of the First World War he was commissioned into the Royal Artillery, becoming one of the youngest Majors in the British Army before being severely wounded when his reconnaissance aircraft was shot down in 1917.

Spotted by MG's managing director, Cecil Kimber, he became one of the marque's leading drivers, setting the first 100 mph lap of Brooklands in a 750cc car.