You Can't Mean That!

As he flashes by, Dick Salmon is telling Graham Hill to turn off the electric fuel pump that has been transferring fuel from a reserve tank to the main fuel tank of his BRM. Or rather it should have been doing that but it hadn’t.

The race is the Belgium Grand Prix of 1964 and Graham’s next task is to negotiate the frightenly fast Eau Rouge downhill curves just ahead of him. Had the electric pump done all that was expected of it he would almost certainly have won the race and the World Championship of that year. Not all the fuel had been transferred to the main tak and Graham ran out on the last lap when in the lead. The first and second finishers, Jim Clark (Lotus) and Bruce McLaren (Cooper), crossed the finish line with their cars too almost out of fuel.

Dick Salmon was part of the BRM Team for 17 years and at the end of 2006 his memoirs of those times were published by Veloce. He tells the story of someone at the “coal-face” of the team’s activities, from the troubled times of the VI 6 car to the successful times when BRM were the World Champions. Dick’s book is a valuable personal record of a very important part of Bourne’s history.

If you would like to know more information, visit the Raymond Mays room at Bourne's Baldocks Mill
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The BRM Celebration Day Committee would like to thank the Bourne Civic Society for allowing us to publish this series of articles. 

Baldocks Mill, which is run by the Bourne Civic Society, will be open on the day, where visitors can look at their BRM trophy cabinet, along with other items of BRM memorabilia. For more information, visit the Bourne Civic Society website.


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