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67PETER GARNIER, FRSAThe late Peter Garnier – born September 3,1918 – was a hugely respected and popularmotoring writer, and a multi-talented man allround. He was educated at Charterhouseand London University, and saw wartimeservice as an officer eventually with commandin torpedo and motor gunboats - MTBs andMGBs - within Royal Navy Coastal Forces.On August 1, 1950, he joined Iliffe& Sons, theLondon-based periodical publishing house,going straight onto the staff of their leadingweekly magazine ‘The Autocar’.In December, 1955, Peter became TheAutocar Sports Editor, following the GrandPrix and sports car racing fraternity of theperiod all around the great circuits of Britainand Continental Europe. During this periodhe became a close personal friend of manyof the world’s greatest racing drivers andconstructors, and through a critical periodof world-class motor sport’s evolution from1960-67 he served as Secretary of the GrandPrix Drivers’ Association – helping negotiateon organisational and safety matters with thecompetition authorities, circuit owners andrace promoters of the period.He was made Deputy Editor of what hadbecome just ‘Autocar’ – losing the definitearticle from its title, a modern artifice of whichhe did not particularly approve - in October,1967 – and then the magazine’s Editor in July1968.He subsequently became Managing Editorof Special Publications, IPC Transport Press1975-81, and was the author of five wellreceivedbooks: ‘16 on the Grid’ (the storyof a Monaco Grand Prix), ‘The Art of GordonCrosby’, ‘Goodwood’, ‘The Motor CyclingClub’ and ‘Donald Healey’.He served as Chairman of the Guild ofMotoring Writers 1971 and 1972, and wasmade a Freeman of the City of London from1969. He was also Chairman of the LiveryCommittee, the Worshipful Company ofCoachmakers& Coach Harness Makers,1975-76, and was Secretary of The CoastalForces Veteran’s Association (CFVA) which24 | Goodwood festival of speedwas founded in 1974 and open to all servicepersonnel who served in the Royal Navy LightCoastal Forces between 1939 and 1957.A lifelong sailor, Peter Garnier lived besidethe sea at Newlyn, just outside Penzance,Cornwall, and from 1988 he served asChairman of Penlee Station, Royal NationalLifeboat Institution.Tall, huskily built, a handsome, extremelyengaging, pleasant and popular gentleman,Peter Garnier was highly regarded in everyone of the many walks of life which he soenthusiastically embraced throughout his life.Lots 61-70 are Property fromthe Estate of the Late PeterGarnier61•Assorted motoring books,including Gerald Rose: A Record of MotorRacing 1894-1908; Taso Mathieson: GrandPrix racing 1906-1914; Anthony S. Heal:Sunbeam Racing Cars 1910-1930; BennoMuller: Racedrivers; and many other titles.(Qty)£500 - 700€610 - 86062•Roger Labric: Les 24 Heures duMans; and other motoring titles,including Peter Helk: Great Auto Races, ThreeMercedes-Benz books with artwork by HansLiska in library case; William Court: Power andGlory 1906-1951; Chris Nixon: Racing theSilver Arrows and other titles.(Qty)£500 - 700€610 - 86063•The Autocar, Volume I, November1895 to December 1896,bound in two Volumes, lacking covers andadverts, together with Volume II part two Julyto December 1897, and a run of bound issuesfrom Volume 97 January 1952 to Volume 1376December 1972, some bound with Indices,together with assorted issues of AutomobileQuarterly including Volume 1 Number 1, otherloose magazines, three Volumes of ClassicCar and ‘Encyclopaedia dell’ Automobile’(Italian Text) in seven Volumes.(Qty)£500 - 700€610 - 860686664•Peter Garnier’s Leica IIIa camera,1938,number 297167, with Leitz Elmar 5cm 1:3.5lens, 1957 Leitz Elmar 9cm 1:4 lens number1464652, Leitz Elmar 9cm view finderattachment, leather Leica camera case andother equipment in a camera case, togetherwith a number of monochrome photographsof racing, rallying, trials and domesticmotoring interest and other subjects, and aprint after Peter Helck, with signed dedicationfrom the Artist to Peter Garnier, 25 x 35cm,framed and glazed.(Qty)£500 - 700€610 - 86065Three motoring paintings fromthe collection of the Late PeterGarnier,comprising; Brian Hatton: ‘1915 V12 TwinSix Packard’, ghosted cut-away, signed, penand ink with watercolour wash, 31 x 52cm,mounted, framed and glazed, published inThe Motor April 1984; L G Russell: ‘LanciaCoachwork’ artist’s impression, signed,watercolour and gouache, 30 x 40cm, framedand glazed and Gordon Horner: ‘Lend meyour Ears’, unsigned watercolour wash onpaper depicting a Bugatti Type 35 at speed,38 x 55cm, rolled, with Autocar stamp to rear,Issue 17/12/54 page 957.(3)£500 - 700€610 - 860