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The Parc Fermé F1 Podcast

Ep 3 TPF Stories | Racing Driver Wanted

The Parc Fermé F1 Podcast

The Parc Fermé

Sports, Leisure, Automotive, Sports News, News

4.5722 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

There is nothing easy about becoming a Formula 1 driver. Most of the top drivers had put everything on the line in order to raise the money needed to succeed. In this episode, we take a second glance at one driver who had an interesting way of funding his racing career.

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0:53.7

It's about keeping

0:54.4

everything secure. On a perfectly peaceful and quiet night of March 6th, 1935, Francis Johnson was

1:02.2

making his rounds as the sole security guard at the Croydon Aerodome in South London. It was the

1:08.6

only international airport in London, and as such, large amounts

1:12.6

of cargo, mail, and gold passed through the facility. On the evening of the six, three

1:18.4

boxes of gold, bound for Paris and Belgium, had been transferred to a strong room at the Imperial

1:24.5

airwaves earlier in the day. There was a set of keys in the

1:28.3

superintendent's locked drawer, and Francis Johnson had the second set. Francis was awakened at

1:35.0

4 a.m. by an arriving German airplane, and he promptly walked past the vault, which at the time

1:40.9

was locked, in order to greet the German plane.

1:47.7

A few hours later, the vault was found to be unlocked,

1:52.4

and 21,000 pounds worth of gold bullion, gold sovereigns,

1:56.9

and American Eagles, entrusted to the Imperial Airways, was missing.

2:02.7

In today's money, that's around one and a half million pounds. The police investigation discovered that a cyclist passing by in the early hours of the morning had noted the number

2:08.4

plate of a taxi that was suspected to have been used in the robbery. This led the police to

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