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6 Apr 2006, 13:03 (Ref:1572254)
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Alvin 'Spike' Rhiando
Can anyone provide me with some information on Spike? I can only find tangential suggestions that he was a bit of a card, but very few hard facts. Google turns up little more.
I do know that: - He may have been Canadian (or was it American? Or Mexican?). - He claimed that he was meant to travel on the Lusitania. - He came to Britain before the war, and tried to introduce midget racing. - He purchased one of the original Coopers, racing it with some success in 1948/9 (I've got a fair bit on this). - He built the Trimax, arguably the first monocoque, and ran it for a couple of years. And then he seems to just disappear. I want to put up a potted biography on our website, seeing as he was one of the pioneers of the 500 movement, but I haven't got much beyond his F3 race record. Can anyone add to this, please? |
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6 Apr 2006, 15:34 (Ref:1572356)
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At the risk of getting my wrist slapped by the mods, you'll find quite a lot of threads about Rhiando in "another place".
Also, if you can get hold of Cholmondeley-Tapper's book "Amateur Racing Driver" and/or Rivers Fletcher's "Mostly Motor Racing", you'll find two descriptions of his attempt to introduce midgets in the 1930s. All in all he was a bit of an "operator" - if you get my drift! |
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6 Apr 2006, 17:26 (Ref:1572437)
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One of the editions of The Automobile magazine (April 1999) had a profile of Spike Rhiando by Guy Griffiths, which should "put some meat on the bones".
Send me your e-mail address, and I'll send you a scan. Where he came from, and what exactly happened to him remain elusive. |
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7 Apr 2006, 13:46 (Ref:1573122)
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Vitesse, thanks, I'll see what I can turn up there. the problem is, I don't get your drift...mention of Spike normally elicits a wry smile but no actual facts
Adam, thanks also. YHM Rich |
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20 Feb 2007, 15:11 (Ref:1846483)
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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Alvin 'Spike' Rhiando
I have some more on him including a relative although old info also have some photos regards terry tmcgrath@bigpond.com |
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21 Feb 2007, 07:56 (Ref:1847011)
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Racer
Join Date: May 2001
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I was asked a similar question by Don Radbruch, so did a little digging. I've found that an A.Rhiando travelled by ship from New York to Shannon, Ireland, but I couldn't tell you exactly when as I don't have a subscription to ancestry.com to see the original source. When Rhiando was to attempt his scooter ride from London to Cape Town, the report also featured in Canadian newspapers who claimed that he was from Saskatoon in Canada, and that he arrived in the UK in 1933.
I'd be interested in seeing any more material on him too! |
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21 Feb 2007, 21:17 (Ref:1847544)
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Join Date: Jul 2006
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I have recently seen his, I am told, Cooper car. It is being re-built not a million miles from me.
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23 Feb 2007, 10:25 (Ref:1849759)
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Join Date: Jun 2005
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There are a couple of pictures of the Banana Spilt at http://www.truprint.co.uk/slideshow/...21/t_=16267821
the front MK2 cooper is the "Kenya" an the rear is the ex-Spike car Last edited by rbm; 23 Feb 2007 at 10:32. |
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23 Feb 2007, 10:57 (Ref:1849787)
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Join Date: Jun 2005
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Having failed to get the above link to work as I wanted try these ones:
Banana Split and Kenya Coopers pictures during build more last one Last edited by rbm; 23 Feb 2007 at 11:00. |
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23 Feb 2007, 20:26 (Ref:1850098)
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In the late Fifties Rhiando was supposed to be involved in the development of the Shamrock...a fairly hideous 'Irish' road car, glassfibre bodied with A50 engine & running gear on a box section platform chassis. The project folded about 1960-61 ish with just a few cars built and the unfinished bodyshells, of which there were quite a number, sat for ages on waste ground opposite the factory in Dundalk......
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