Word: surbiton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cooper-Climax is the product of a small British company that grew out of a garage started in 1919 by Charles Newton Cooper in Surbiton, eleven miles southwest of London. After World War II, Cooper and his son John, an intense, black-haired designer-engineer, got the speed bug and set out to develop a small, cheap racing car powered by a motorcycle engine. Gradually the cars grew faster, but they still used largely hand-me-down engines. At one point the Coopers used a four-cylinder Coventry Climax engine originally designed to pump water for fire fighters. Rebored...
Losing but Winning. In 1955, driving a car from the garage in Surbiton, he won the Australian Grand Prix, snapped up an offer to campaign on the international circuit with Cooper. But he met with little success until this year, when he climbed behind the wheel of the retooled Cooper-Climax, won the Monaco Grand Prix (average speed: 67.6 m.p.h.), finished second in the Dutch Grand Prix, and first in the British Grand Prix...
...Keeping up the clever, carefully planned tennis that has made her virtually unbeatable since she started her foreign tour last fall, the U.S.'s Althea Gibson (TIME, June 4) staved off a last-set rally by Britain's Anne Shilcock, won the Surrey County title at Surbiton, England, 6-3, 13-11, for her17th victory of the international campaign, her eighth...
From the moment she landed at London's airport late last May, Maureen had settled down to work with an awesome determination. Smashing her way to victory, she swept unchecked through the Grass Courts Singles titles at Surbiton and Manchester. It was big news whenever she dropped a set. Playing the all-out attacking game-volleys, overheads, attack with the serve-that Coach Tennant had drilled her on all winter, she moved into the early rounds at Wimbledon with machine-like precision...