IMPORTANT BRONZE AND SILVER TROPHY HARTFORD Gd PRIX DE PROVENCE CIRCUIT DE MIRAMAS 1925 WINNER MAJOR SIR HENRY SEAGRAVE ON TALBOT 70

HARTFORD Cup of the Grand Prix Automobile de Provence. Gilt bronze and green marble (base and sphere). It bears the motto Force/Souplesse and, on either side, two heraldic or encrypted shields R.F. Engraved at the base F. Barbedienne Fondeur

The Hartford Cup was put into play for the Grand Prix de Provence contested on the Miramar circuit from 1924 to 1927.

In 1924, the first Grand Prix de Provence took place, in the Sport category. The winner is awarded the H. Hartford Cup (the same for subsequent years).
In 1926, a Grand Prix de Provence Sport was also organized, won by Maurice Rost on Georges Irat4.
The event was organized in particular by the Automobile Club de France in 1927.

François Repusseau, patron of this trophy, was director of the eponymous establishments (77 rue Danton in Levallois). Himself a rally driver, he marketed Hartford shock absorbers under license.

Major Sir Henry O'Neil de Hane Segrave, known as Henry Segrave, born September 22, 1896 in Baltimore (Maryland) and died June 13, 1930 at Lake Windermere (Cumbria), is a British racing driver.

He is primarily famous for holding three land speed records and one water speed record (first driver to hold both simultaneously). He was the first human being to exceed 200 mph (or miles per hour, for 320 km/h) on the earth's surface.

In 1921, he took part in the first long distance race organized in Great Britain, over 200 miles, the Junior Car Club 200 mile race of the British Automobile Racing Club, which he won at Brooklands on Talbot-Darracq repeating in 1925 and 1926 , again with a Talbot.

Winner of the 1923 French Grand Prix (first British to win a Grand Prix on a car built in his country) and the Boulogne Grand Prix the same year (on a Talbot 70 cart), the 1924 San Sebastian Grand Prix, and the Grand Prix de Provence 1925 and 1926 on Talbot, he is better known for having subsequently established several world speed records on land and water.

He also took part in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1925 (retiring from a Sunbeam Sport Model, with his compatriot George Duller).

In the late 1920s, his interest in airplanes also led him to design a luxury touring plane, the Blackburn, a twin-engine wooden monoplane. Segrave also built three metal examples of the Saro Segrave Meteor.

He was the great rival of his other compatriot Malcolm Campbell (9 records approved between 1924 and 1935), in the long-distance duel between the two men between 1926 and 1931, the American Ray Keech succeeding in beating them in 1928 on the very site of their exploits, at Daytona, when J. G. Parry-Thomas was to die there in 1927.

After being the first person to attempt to rescue American Lee Bible during his fatal attempt on March 13, 1929 in Ormond Beach, Florida, to break his third world record

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