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Goblin Garage – Warwick
Ridley Engineering Ltd – Leamington
Birmingham Road Garage and McDonagh & Sons Ltd (The Bridge Garage)– edited
Frettons – Leamington updated.
Norman Engineering – updated.
Dunns Tyres – Leamington
Percy Johnson – Leamington

History – British Racing Green
James Gordon Bennett was the proprietor of the New York Herald Tribune in 1845. Born in Scotland to wealthy parents, he moved to America in 1820 and then eventually to France to promote his paper.
Previously awarded a trophy for Sailing Yacht races in the South of France then turned his attention to the new Motor Carriage. (First motor car patented by Carl Benz in January 1886)
(The first motor race in the world was from Paris-Bordeaux-Paris 1895).
In 1900, Gordon Bennett offered the newly formed 1895 Automobile Club de France (ACF) a trophy for the winner of endurance events that were to be raced annually by the automobile clubs of various countries.
France, the United States, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, and Italy were the first contestants, with Great Britain joining in 1902.
The cars were supposed to be built entirely by that country.
This event became the original basis of the current Grand Prix of International Motor Racing.
Several endurance team events were held in France, mostly between the major cities.
Paris – Dijon (1900)
Paris – Bordeaux (1901) and
Paris – Innsbruck (1902).
The country of the winner was to host the next race, in 1902 this was won by an Australian-born English businessman Selwyn Francis Edge in just over 11 hours who imported cars mainly from France, his company was the De Dion-Bouton British and Colonial Ltd, but the 1902 winning car was a British Napier 44.5hp (6.44 litre) painted in Olive Green and driven on behalf of Mary Eliza Kennard, an English novelist and writer, but representing the Automobile Club of Britain and Ireland.
Selwyn Francis Edge had previously won the 1896 Paris–Marseille–Paris race in his Panhard-Levassor – ‘Old Number 8’
In 1903, Britain had a fixed speed limit of 14mph, so the event was held on closed roads around the area just outside Dublin, starting in Ballyshannon, County Kildare, in southern Ireland.

Each country had been assigned a colour for their team cars in the early races. As red, white and blue were already taken by other countries. Britain chose olive green in 1902, which was used on many railway locomotives. However, as a complement to the race being held in Ireland, the shade was changed to Ireland’s Shamrock Green (RAL 150-40-50).

This became British Racing Green, or known as Emerald Green and Ireland Green.