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Thomas Murray Jamieson

NOTWITHSTANDING A looming global conflict, the ultimately fatal injuries suffered by Thomas Murray Jamieson at Brooklands in May 1938 set British motor racing back a decade. That he was spectating rather than participating at the International Trophy made his loss all the more difficult to bear.

Stocky, shy and unassuming, the Londonborn Anglo-Scot had been a brilliant scholar at Regent Street Polytechnic before emerging from London University with a glut of diplomas and medals, as well as a BSc in engineering.

He joined

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