Nationality English | ||
Occupation Race car driverIndustrialist Died 27 August 1963, Paddington, London, United Kingdom | ||
Alfred Godfrey Imhof (6 May 1911, St. Giles – 27 August 1963, Paddington) was a British racing driver in trials, rallies and hill climbing. He was the winner of the 2nd RAC Rally that was held in 1952, driving a Allard-Cadillac J2.
Career
Before the war, he teamed up in trial with Ben Richardson and Michael Lawson, in the Candidi Provocatores trials team, on a 1936 LM Speed Model (chassis BBY 333).
In the immediate post-war period, he became an industrial designer at Allard and took part in the design of the K1 (two-seater), L1 (4-seater) models, and especially the competition J1, which he owned and competed Personally from 1946 to 1949.
He then became a London-based industrialist, owner of the His Master's Voice recorder factory, built in Oxford Street in the 1950s.