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Thomas Pitt Cholmondeley-Tapper

Title:


Other names:


Known as:

George

ATA Number:

M1007

Previous Experience:

Director, C.T.F. Aviation Ltd

Date of birth:

31/07/1910

Birth place:

Wellington, New Zealand

Date of death:

27/07/2001

Place of death:

England

Nationality:

New Zealand

Education/Employment:

Christ College, NZ then Jesus College, Cambridge

Information

Motor Accident


In October 1944 he crashed while driving from Carlisle to Kirkbride aerodrome for flying duties. He sustained a fractured skull and broken right leg. He survived, though his recovery took some seven years.


Thomas Pitt Cholmondeley-Tapper


Thomas was an auto racing driver from New Zealand, the first greatest New Zealander auto driver before Graham McRae, Chris Amon, Bruce McLaren, Denny Hulme and others. He was known as George, he came from Norwegian ancestry.

An expert skier and amateur driver racing Bugatti's, an old GP Maserati 8CM he had bought from Earl Howe, and a Ferrari Monza. He was offered a Mercedes-Benz test drive at the end of the 1936 season, would participate at 1936 German Grand Prix. He died in England at 90 years old.


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