This is a car that I photographed in the Donington Park Museum in October 1989, and it's one that I remember seeing at race meetings in the 1960s.
It's the Derby Maserati, a front-wheel drive car built by the French Derby company in 1935 with a 1½ litre supercharged 4-cylinder engine from a Maserati 4CM. The car was built for Mrs Gwenda Stewart whose future third husband, Douglas Hawkes, was a director of the Derby company which was founded in 1921 at Courbevoie on the outskirts of Paris. Gwenda Stewart didn't have much success with the car, and after the Second World War the car appeared at historic car meetings until the 1960s when it went to the Donington Park Museum for almost 40 years.
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