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1930
Ards Tourist Trophy race
This
photograph taken for “The Motor” magazine shows J.D. Benjafield
driving a Bentley 4˝ Supercharged in the 1930 Ards
Tourist Trophy race. The location is the Comber
Road right beside Dundonald Station. You can see the Down Platform wooden
waiting shed with its distinctive decorative trim in the top right. A policeman
is “guarding” the Comber road entrance to the station and you can just see
the edge of the stone work of the steps up to the station platform. (see
close-up below)
Down
the road the trellised bridge over the Comber
Road can be made out and in the
distance you can see the home signal for the station. The Bridge and most of
this part of the embankment was cleared away in the late 1960s to improve the
sight lines at the junction between the Comber
Road and Old
Dundonald Road.
The picture below shows the same scene in 2013.
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