[Soap Box Derby]

Soap Box Derby, Saturday April 24th. Official Souvenir Program. Organised by the Apex Club of Adelaide in Aid of the Schools' Patriotic Fund. Saturday, April 24th, 1943 [cover title]

Adelaide, The Apex Club (printed by Thornquest Press), 1943.

Octavo, 32 pages with a few illustrations and period advertisements plus advertisements on three surfaces of the covers.

Three-colour pictorial title-wrappers (with the front cover design by Keera Crozier) slightly marked and creased; a light vertical crease down the centre, and a tiny closed tear at the leading edge of all leaves; a very good copy.

The results for many of the races are pencilled in (as the publisher intended). A loosely-inserted newspaper tearsheet gives some interesting details: 'Spurred on by a crowd estimated at 20,000, Alf Wormald, 14, won the Soapbox Derby today in his "Kitty-Hawk" by 25 yards from Brian Collins ("Jeep") and Brian Polkinghorne ("Tobruk Rat")'. Well, it was in aid of a patriotic fund.

Item #129212

Price (AUD): $220.00
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