{"id":37864,"date":"2014-07-07T19:38:35","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T18:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/issue_content\/the-great-hr-pope\/"},"modified":"2019-07-20T14:49:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T13:49:07","slug":"vintage-postbag-april-1961","status":"publish","type":"issue_content","link":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/archive\/article\/april-1961\/19\/vintage-postbag-april-1961\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Postbag, April 1961"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Great H. R. Pope<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sir,<\/p>\n<p>In his letter about Mr. Hugh Locke-King and Dame Ethel Locke-King&#8217;s journey to Venice in 1905, Lord Montagu reports that their Itala was driven much of the way by &#8220;a certain Mr. Pope who was connected with the Itala firm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sir, I hope, but with a niggling feeling that my hope may be unfounded, that this is irony, and that it is only because I am so &#8220;square&#8221; that I have fallen for it. Is it as &#8220;a certain Mr. Pope&#8221; that one now refers to the great H. R. Pope, captor, and for all I know still holder, of the London-Turin record; driver in the Grand Prix which was run on July 13th, 1913, of No. 13 Itala which was <em>hors de combat <\/em>at the 13th kilometre stone; doughty pen duellist with S. F. Edge, whom he tried over so many years to instruct in the virtues of four speeds, right-hand change, wire wheels and other mechanical features which, incidentally, characterised the Itala but not the A.C.?<\/p>\n<p>Sir, My hope has -dwindled so near to vanishing point that I can only sign myself\u2014 &#8220;A CERTAIN BALADEUR.&#8221; Name and address supplied.\u2014Ed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[167,53977,60359,190,34850],"issue_decade":[121587],"issue_year":[121623],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/37864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/issue_content"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/37864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240035,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/37864\/revisions\/240035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37864"},{"taxonomy":"issue_decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_decade?post=37864"},{"taxonomy":"issue_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_year?post=37864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}