David Bramhill David Bramhill - Email

Chief Road Marshals Co-Ordinator
M-07976 911 446

Dale Cox Dale Cox - Email

Chief Test Marshals Co-Ordinator
M-07786 569 388

A BigThank You to All our Event Marshals

On behalf of Knutsford and District Motor Club
We would like to say a very BIG THANK YOU to all our EVENT MARSHALS
On the 2026 Tour of Cheshire Historic Rally
If you were involved in-

  • Regularity Starts
  • Car Park Management
  • Scrutineering
  • Traffic Management
  • Chase Car Crews
  • Assisting Noise Control
  • Main Time Controls
  • Intermediate Time Controls
  • Secret Check Controls
  • Passage Controls
  • Tests
  • Any other duties

Your participation was very much appreciated. The feedback about the standard of marshalling at the finish of the event from competitors was extremely complimentary. You all did a fantastic job.

The event would not run or be the success that it was without you.

Thank you again to everyone, we hope you all enjoyed the event.

See you all next year for ToC27.

Best regards
David Bramhill - Road Marshal Co-ordinator & Dale Cox Test Marshal Co-ordinator
08-03-2026

2026
Another busy day at the HRCR Gaydon open-day
Lorna Harrison & the Team setting up

Once again we will be using Liege Timers, they are easy to use once you have familiarised yourself with the procedures

Liege Clock Timing

To help refresh yourselves here is an excellent video, produced by the Bramhill family, of how Liege Timers work and how you operate them

Marshals Info

5 Day Area Weather Forecasts

Once again, we had acting as Marshals an elite band of ECF - VIPs from the Golden Days of Rallying.

ECF Member For 2022 we had ECF Member

Sue Bloxham - Carol & Robin Tyler-Morris - Mike Sones
Peter Valentine - Cec Offley - Ray Dale

What is ECF
or
ECURIE COD FILLET

From the inception of the Tour of Cheshire Rally Rally in 2004; Ecurie Cod Fillet members have been an annual unique feature of the event, assisting with the organisation, marshalling and social aspects. ECF is an invitation-only Club formed in the 50s by Roy Fidler and John Hopwood for leading British rallyists. Indeed the bulk of the membership was formed in the 1960 era through participating in the Motoring News Championship, which bred some formidable crews from competing in those epic 200-plus mile night rallies.

Initially it was primarily for British rallyists but famous names from other countries - Erik Carlsson, Timo Makinen, Rauno Aaltonen, Simo Lampinen and Hannu Mikkola (all winners of the RAC Rally) - soon became members! Today's membership is still an exclusive "under 300" and is a veritable 'who's who' of the good old days of British rallying in the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. Messrs Fidler and Hopwood also started the first "closed-road" rally when they founded the Manx Trophy Rally (Won by Reg McBrride & Don Barrow) in 1963.

Reunions are held every two years, the most recent being in November 2025 at the Cranage Business Centre, Holmes Chapel. The Tour of Cheshire again look forward to welcoming a good number of these rallyists of old to the 2026 Tour of Cheshire.

Sadly as each year passes the ECF membership diminishes in numbers but the old traditional spirit of Press on Regardless lives on.

I became an ECF member in 1959 and I can certainly claim to be the longest serving member to date.

Don Barrow - December 2025.

Don Barrow - Photo by Tony Large
Russell Brookes, Will Sparrow, Tony Mason, Neil Wilson, Tony Davies, Roy Fidler, Tony Fall & Alan Jolley.

Don Barrow - A few members of Ecurie Cod Fillet ECF officiating on the 2006 Tour of Cheshire Historic Rally
John Bloxham, Rob Lyall, Toney Cox, Roy Fidler, Stuart Turner, Alan Jolley, John Hopwood, Russell Brookes & Peter Bryant


John Parsons, Mike Harrison, Howard Warren - Porsche 911 - Cath Woodman, Duncan Wild, Peter Valentine & Alan Jolley

Other ECF members who have officiated on the Tour of Cheshire Rally since 2004.

Roy Fidler, John Hopwood, Alan Jolley, Barrie 'Whizzo' Williams, Bob Redhead, Carolyn Tyler-Morris, Cec Offley, Christopher Knowles-Fitton, Deryck Pickup, Don Barrow, Geoff Awde, Geoff Breakall, John Bloxham, John Brown, John Nixey, John Parsons, John Waddington, John Wadsworth, John Wood, Mike Broad, Mike Sones, Mike Wood, Neil Wilson, Nigel Raeburn, Norman Salt, Peter Bryant, Peter Valentine, Peter Ward, Ray Dale, Richard Harper, Rob Lyall, Rodney Spokes, Roy Mapple, Russell Brookes, Stuart Turner, Terry Harrison, Toney Cox, Tony Fall, Tony Mason, Will Sparrow & many more.

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