[Ashley James]

I think the White family may have been snobs because they didn't
approve of Sir Roy Feddon much. He was an extremely clever man and
had developed immensely successful Aero engines for them, but they
never rewarded him properly and may even have reneged on the
commission he was due for the sales of Jupiter Engines and licences
to make them. Feddon was difficult, but to have him walk out at a
crucial time wasn't clever. It set them back some years.

Bristol had some 60, 000 employees at the end of the war and AFN was a
second hand car garage and specials builder with about twenty. In the
end they made 85 Bristol engined cars I believe. However Frazer Nashes
competition success in the early fifties was staggering and must have
helped Bristol enormously. I recommend Frazer Nash "What Memories That
Name Arouses!" by RL Jennings if you're in any doubt about their
contribution to engine development or the Bristol Car Company's
prestige.

I have quite a few books from Setright and I am friends with a
Specialist who looked after him the end, and I think it's fair to say
that most are full of errors and opinions rather than fact. He was a
brilliant man with a brilliant mind and a fanatic driver, but he
wasn't technical and he was economical with the facts. Jenks I met
once at a VMCC meeting at Mallory Park, he was a small scruffy man
with a bushy beard as I recall, but he was revered for his attention
to detail and the accuracy of his reportage, so I'd go with him.
Especially now that it is known that Ton Crook wasn't averse to
"adjustments" of history too.

Ash