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In the News (Wed 19 Jun 13)

  
  §16. Surtees. VI. Caricature and the Literature of Sport. Vol. 14. The Victorian Age, Part Two. The Cambridge ...
Surtees was also the author of the papers in Bell’s Life in London, some of which were issued, with illustrations by Alken, in a volume mentioned above, The Analysis of the Hunting Field.
Surtees is a comic writer of a broad and hearty humour and a deft and subtle touch.
Surtees was fortunate in the assistance of two young artists who were then carrying on the succession of Alken and George Cruikshank.
www.bartleby.com /224/0616.html   (624 words)

  
 Surtees & money by Tim Congdon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
(Surtees was born in 1805, Dickens in 1812.
Surtees and Trollope accepted the inequality of mid-Victorian England as part of the human condition, and in Surtees’s case he saw the inequality as the by-product of a game, the always entertaining moves and counter-moves of the market economy.
Surtees is usually seen as the definitive novelist of Victorian horses and hunting, but a case can be made that his writings are unrivaled in their candid, pitiless, and very amusing accounts of deception, fraud, and outright swindling.
www.newcriterion.com /archive/20/jun02/surtees.htm   (4223 words)

  
 R S Surtees Handley Cross
Surtees died in 1864 at the age of nearly 60, his literary life still somewhat masked by the conventional public life of a country gentleman.
However, it must be remembered that Surtees' chief motivation was to entertain; as he declared in the preface, 'the reader will have the kindness to bear in mind, that the work merely professes to be a tale, and does not aspire to the dignity of a novel'.
Surtees was writing in an age of transition, and no other writer is so firmly placed in his historical setting or so obsessed about the minutiae of daily life.
special.lib.gla.ac.uk /exhibns/month/nov2005.html   (2245 words)

  
 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Drivers > John Surtees
Surtees' prowess on motorcycles won him universal respect, and soon after trying out cars for Vanwall and Aston Martin in 1959, he switched full-time to cars in 1960.
Despite the prodigious speed he showed, this was the point at which Colin Chapman was forging his deep alliance with Jim Clark, and Surtees elected to move to pastures new just as the British team really began to establish itself.
After winning the World Championship for Ferrari in a dramatic Mexican Grand Prix in 1964, Surtees quit the Prancing Horse in the middle of the 1966 season after internal pressure became intolerable, and thus left Jack Brabham a clear run to the title.
www.grandprix.com /gpe/drv-surjoh.html   (524 words)

  
 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Constructors > Surtees Racing Organisation
Surtees relocated in mid-1969 from premises in Slough to a new base at Edenbridge in Kent where Team Surtees ran the cars and TS Research & Development designed and built them.
At the same time Surtees himself was having medical problems with his legs, the result of a violent crash in CanAm in the 1960s.
Surtees went back to running his other businesses and enjoying family life, having married one of the nurses he met during his stay in hospital.
www.grandprix.com /gpe/con-surte.html   (1453 words)

  
 Robert Surtees
English antiquary and topographical historian, was the son of Robert Surtees of Mainsforth, Durham.
Surtees, who in 1807 married Anne Robinson, died at Mainsforth on the 11th of February 1834.
As a memorial of him the "Surtees Society" was founded in 1834 for the purpose of publishing ancient unedited manuscripts bearing on the history of the border country.
www.nndb.com /people/314/000098020   (116 words)

  
 The Official Formula 1 Website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
However, his twin strengths of talent and tenacity kept Surtees in the limelight, especially in Italy, where the former MV Agusta star was now invited to lead the country's famous Formula One team.
For John Surtees, the satisfaction of becoming the first World Champion on both two and four wheels was only mitigated by the fact that he had clinched all his bike titles with race victories.
Surtees finished 1966 with Cooper, for whom he won the season finale in Mexico, then spent two years leading Honda's new Formula One team.
www.formula1.com /archive/halloffame/driver/129.html   (1121 words)

  
 John Surtees - WOI Encyclopedia Italia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
John Surtees (born February 11 1934) is a British racing driver, and the only one to have become World Champion on both two and four wheels.
Born in Tatsfield, Surrey, Surtees won seven world titles in motorcycle racing, winning the 350cc championship from 1958 to 1960, and the 500cc championship in 1956 and 1958 through 1960.
Surtees switched from motorcycles to cars, full time in 1960 making his Formula 1 debut racing for Lotus in the Monaco Grand Prix in Monte Carlo.
www.wheelsofitaly.com /wiki/index.php/John_Surtees   (258 words)

  
 Surtees - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Surtees formed the team in 1966 for the newly-formed CanAm series (an unlimited sports car series), with John winning the championship as an owner/driver in its first year.
Surtees ran the full 1970 season, but John was forced to run the first four races in an old McLaren because of a delay in the construction of his in-house F1 car.
Surtees added a second full time car in 1971 for German sports car ace Rolf Stommelen, and ran a third car for various drivers in a number of races.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Surtees   (1252 words)

  
 Surtees 2
Surtees attended school in Ovingham and Durham before being articled in 1822 to Robert Purvis, a solicitor in Market Street, Newcastle.
In 1835, Surtees abandoned his legal practice and after inheriting Hamsterley Hall in 1838, devoted himself to hunting and shooting, meanwhile writing anonymously for his own pleasure.
Perhaps Surtees most resembles the Dickens of Pickwick Papers, which, we recall, was originally intended as mere supporting matter for a series of sporting illustrations to rival Jorrocks.
pages.britishlibrary.net /alan.myers/lit/m-surtees2.html   (527 words)

  
 John Surtees Signed Memorabilia
Surtees signed the first US copies of a new book focusing on his career as a World Champion motorcycle rider along with a selection of die cast models of Formula One and Sports Cars driven to 4-wheel Championships in the 1960's.
In the late 1950's, John Surtees was the dominant rider in top-level British and European motorcycle racing.
Surtees signed a variety of books, models and artwork to be offered exclusively here at www.motorsportcollector.com.
www.motorsportcollector.com /SurteesSigned.html   (484 words)

  
 John Surtees - Grand Prix Racing - the whole story
Surtees quit bike racing altogether at the end of 1961, but failed to make the right move when Lotus offered him a deal to run alongside Jim Clark the following year.
For a few days it seemed as though Surtees might not survive, but he fought back to recover from his injuries with a characteristic tenacity which saw him back in a Ferrari - and winning again - early in 1966.
For 1969, Surtees signed for BRM, but it turned out to be a technical fiasco complicated towards the end of the season when John developed medical complications, including viral pneumonia, as a long- term consequence of his Mosport Park accident.
www.gpracing.net192.com /drivers/careers/563.cfm   (860 words)

  
 John Surtees - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After spending the 1961 season with the Cooper racing team and the 1962 season with the Lola team, he moved to Ferrari in 1963 and won the world championship for the Italian team in 1964.
Surtees parted company with Ferrari during the 1966 season after winning the 1966 Belgian Grand Prix, citing excessive pressure as a factor, leaving Jack Brabham to take the Drivers' Championship.
In 1970, he formed his own race team, Surtees Racing Organization and spent nine seasons competing in Formula 5000, Formula 2 and Formula 1 as a constructor.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Surtees   (713 words)

  
 John Surtees
Aber Surtees ist Asket und und prinzipientreu wie ein preussischer Offizier, seine Grossmutter stammte in der Tat aus der Umgebung von Karlsruhe.
But Surtees is ascetic and firm-principled like a Prussian officer, his grandmother had come from the surrounding area of German Karlsruhe indeed.
From 1970 on Team Surtees also was involved in Grand Prix Racing, first with a bought McLaren Ford, at the middle of the year with a make of theirown.
www.research-racing.de /john.surtees.htm   (1044 words)

  
 Surtees Surname Origin & Last Name Meaning with Genealogy & Family History Resources
The origin of the surname Surtees may give hints about one line of your family history from many hundreds of years ago such as where your family lived, what they did, or how they looked.
Join others on the Surtees genealogy mailing list for discussion and sharing of information regarding family histories of Surtees surname and its variations.
Be sure to search for Surtees ancestor instead of ansestor or ancester; ancestry instead of ancestory and ancestery.
www.searchforancestors.com /surnames/origin/s/surtees.php   (894 words)

  
 John Surtees - International Motorsports Hall of Fame Member
John Surtees was the son of a London motorcycle and sidecar racing rider and salesman.
Surtees, in 1960, retired from motorcycles as World Champion and also competed in his first Formula 1 events finishing second in his third race.
In 1964 Surtees won at Syracuse, Italy in the V-S Ferrari and in Germany and Monza which, together with other high placings, at the age of 30 won him the Formula 1 World Championship.
www.motorsportshalloffame.com /halloffame/1996/John_Surtees_main.htm   (413 words)

  
 Alabama Archives: Motorsports Hall of Fame
Surtees, in 1960, retired from motorcycles as World Champion and also competed in his first Formula 1events finishing second in his third race.
In 1964 Surtees won at Syracuse, Italy in the V-8 Ferrari and in Germany and Monza which, together with other high placings, at the age of 30 won him the Formula 1 World Championship.
Surtees is the only man to win World titles on both two and four wheels.
www.archives.state.al.us /motor/people/surtees.html   (394 words)

  
 JOHN SURTEES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
John Surtees, a man of great skill in motor cycling, has for the last two years performed with startling ability in the world of motor-car racing.
Surtees, however, a man of great courage and ambition, who is also very young, is giving these same 'old boys' keen Competition.
It is felt by many that, in a few years time, Surtees will burst through the barriers and finally finish at the chequered flag as the world champion.
www.oma.org.uk /Library_Links/John_Surtees_1960.htm   (134 words)

  
 Surtees, Robert Smith - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
He created John Jorrocks, the sporting grocer, who appears in Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities (1838), a series of humorous sketches first published in the New Sporting Magazine, which Surtees had helped to found in 1831.
Surtees knew English hunting life well, and his books have a tone of lusty humor and hearty satire.
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Surtees, Robert Smith" at HighBeam.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-surtees.html   (228 words)

  
 OldRacingCars.com | F5000 | Surtees TS8
After the success of the TS5, Surtees seem to have been in two minds for 1971.
Was intended to be Surtees works car in the US but later returned to UK.
John Surtees is known to have had a several F5000 cars as recently as 1990.
www.oldracingcars.com /f5000/surtees/ts8.htm   (2313 words)

  
 Surtees Boats - We manufacture award winning, quality aluminum boats. Choose from any of our 5 award winning designs, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
All Surtees boats are water ballasted for maximum stability at rest.
This allows the design to have a deeper V hull for smoother non pounding travel through the water.
The dealer’s description supersedes this guide and all details should be checked with either the dealer or sales consultant prior to purchase.
www.surtees.co.nz /the5thdimension/vehiclelistings.asp?vehicleID=37   (210 words)

  
 Surtees Boats - We manufacture award winning, quality aluminum boats. Choose from any of our 5 award winning designs, ...
Surtees Boats - We manufacture award winning, quality aluminum boats.
Surtees have come from a different angle, going for a soft-riding deep V hull, and solving the stability aspect by building a self-flooding ballast tank along the keel line.
The ballast tank is open at the transom and vented up through the anchor well.
www.surtees.co.nz   (202 words)

  
 Grand Prix Racing - the whole story
John Surtees is perhaps best remembered as the only man to win world titles on two and four wheels.
The TS19 was the first car to wear the Durex livery and was the reason that BBC TV withdrew their cameras from pre-season British races during 1975.
The most promising driver to sit in a Surtees was Rene Arnoux but a lack of sponsorship forced the team to close before he ever got a real chance to show what he could do.
www.gpracing.net192.com /teams/56.cfm   (164 words)

  
 Robert Smith Surtees Society
John Leech, Illustrator of Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour, drew for Punch almost from its inception in 1841 and became its leading draughtsman and a household name.
No collaboration of artist and author has been more successful than that of Leech and Surtees.
In the case of bookshops discount may be given subject to quantity ordered.
www.r.s.surteessociety.org /orders.html   (229 words)

  
 GMP - John Surtees Lola T-70
John Surtees is the only man to win World Championships on two as well as four wheels, claiming 7 World Motorcycle Championships before turning his attention to Formula One and sports cars.
Surtees won the 1964 Formula One World Championship for Ferrari and excelled in sports car racing, becoming the first Can Am Champion in 1966 driving this Team Surtees Lola T-70.
It was won by John Surtees in his Team Surtees Lola T70.
www.motorsportcollector.com /GMPSurteesLola7.html   (150 words)

  
 Surtees hotel, Victoria London hotels lower rates booking. Accommodation, apartment and bed and breakfast central ...
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Surtees Hotel offers good value bed and breakfast accommodation in a welcoming hotel offering affordable accommodation in the heart of London, situated in Victoria
Our clean and cosy rooms (from one guest to six guests) maintain a high standard of quality to ensure that our guests are receiving the total comfort and satisfaction.
www.findlondonhotel.com /surtees_hotel.htm   (351 words)

  
 Robert Surtees Biography :: Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Surtees' first Oscar-nominated film, Mervyn LeRoy's fl-and-white "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" (1944, scripted by Dalton Trumbo), teamed him with producer Sam Zimbalist, later the producer of "King Solomon's Mines" (1950), which brought Surtees his first Academy Award for his superb Technicolor renderings of the steaming jungles, burning deserts and snow-capped mountains of the Dark Continent.
Surtees also proved a virtuoso at lighting seascapes, particularly at dusk, for the remake of "Mutiny on the Bounty" (1962), picking up yet another Academy Award nomination.
Surtees passed the mantle to his son Bruce, whose resume as a director of photography includes more than a dozen pictures with Clint Eastwood and Oscar-nominated work on "Lenny" (1973).
www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/3373503   (938 words)

  
 JOHN STARKEY CARS :: CARS FOR SALE
John Surtees clinched the inaugural 1966 Can Am Championship with this car and has personally verified its history.
Now restored and with a Chevrolet 327 on Weber carburetors fitted, this immaculate T70, with the nose signed by John Surtees, is ready for next year's vintage racing season.
Raced by John Surtees in 1967 after problems with his Mark 111B Spyder.
www.johnstarkeycars.com /pages/for_sale/surtees.html   (282 words)

  
 Robert Smith Surtees
English novelist and sporting writer, was the second son of Anthony Surtees of Hamsterley Hall, a member of an old Durham family.
The former of these two books was illustrated by "Phiz" (H. Browne), and the latter, as well as most of Surtees's subsequent novels, by John Leech, whose pictures of "Jorrocks" were everywhere familiar and were the chief means of ensuring the lasting popularity of that humorous creation.
The later novels by Surtees included Hillingdon Hall (1845), in which "Jorrocks" again appears; Hawbuck Grange (1847); Mr.
www.nndb.com /people/313/000098019   (277 words)

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