Talk:Dewar Trophy/Temp

History
The Dewar Trophy was presented to the Royal Automobile Club in 1904 by Sir Thomas R Dewar, MP (later Lord Dewar), and was to be awarded at the discretion of the Club’s Technical Committee for the most meritorious performance in the Certified Trials held by the Club.

The first recipients of the award in 1906 were Dennis Brothers Limited of Guildford in respect of a Dennis car. It was awarded nineteen times during the years 1906 to 1929, there being some years when it was considered that no performance had been recorded of sufficient merit to warrant the award.

In 1931 the Terms of the Award were changed and then became “for the most outstanding technical achievement accomplished during that year under the Competition Rules of the Club”. No award was made under the Terms, however, until 1950, when it went to the Rover Company for the production and performance of the Rover Gas Turbine Powered Car.

The Trophy was not awarded again until 1957, at which time the Terms were again changed to those which prevail to this day, namely, “for an outstanding British technical achievement in the automotive field during the preceding year”.

The award is held in as high regard today as it was in the earliest years of the 20th century, with recent winners including the JCB Dieselmax world diesel land speed record breaker, Mercedes-Benz High Performance Engines for its Formula One Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems (KERS) and Lotus Engineering for its Versatile Vehicle Architecture (VVA) chassis technology.

Past Winners
1906	Dennis Bros. Limited - 20h.p. Dennis Car. 4,000 miles

1907	Rolls-Royce Limited - 40.50h.p. Rolls-Royce. 15,000 miles

1908	The Anglo-American Motor Company Limited - Standardisation test of three 10h.p. Cadillac cars

1909	The Daimler Company Limited - Two sleeve-valve engines of 22.8h.p. and 34.4h.p. respectively. 132 hours’ bench test and 2,000 miles on Brooklands track

1910	Mr S.F. Edge - 59.9h.p. Napier. London to Edinburgh and back top-gear trial

1911	The Thomas Transmission Limited - 2,000 miles trial of a lorry and London to Edinburgh and back trial of 13.96h.p. car. Both fitted with Thomas Transmission

1913	F.S. Bennett Limited - 1914 model 32.2h.p. Cadillac car.

1914	The National Steam Company Limited - National coke fuel motor lorry consumption tests

1920	The National Benzole Company Limited - 10,000 miles trial

1921	John I Thornycroft and Company Limited - “B.T.” type lorry

1922	Armstrong-Siddeley Motors Limited - 10,000 miles trial

1923	Rapson Tyre and Jack Company Limited - Rapson cord tyres – 40,000 miles trial

1925	Rover Company Limited – 13.96h.p. car. Fifty ascents and descents of Bwlch-y-Groes- Merionethshire

1926	Miss Violet Cordery - Invicta Car – 5,000 miles

1928	C B Wardman - Mercedes Benz heavy oil lorry. Consumption and reliability

1929	Miss V Cordery - Invicta chassis – 30,000 miles

1950	The Rover Company Limited - Production and performance of the gas turbine powered car 1951	Jaguar Cars Limited - Performance in four major international events

1952	Sunbeam-Talbot Limited - Performance in 1952 International Alpine Rally

1957	The Dunlop Rubber Company Limited - work on disc brakes and research and development of tyres for the M.G. car, which secured various international speed records

1958	Mr G A Vandervell - Design, development, production and performance of the Vanwall car

1959	British Motor Corporation and Mr Alec Issigonis - Advanced development in automobile design, as exemplified by the Morris Mini-Minor and Austin Seven

1963	Coventry Climax Engines Limited - for design, development and production of engines which have brought British cars to the forefront of Grand Prix racing

1967	The Motor Industry Research Association - for carrying out research and initiating development of the load proportioning system of braking to prevent “jack-knifing” of articulated vehicles

1969	Mr Keith Duckworth, BSc., ACGI, - design of the Ford Formula 1 engine which has retained the supremacy of British engineering in Grand Prix racing

1971	The British Leyland Motor Corporation, coupled with the name of Mr P M Wilkes - advanced development in Automobile design as exemplified by the Range Rover

1972	The British Leyland Motor Corporation (Truck and Bus Division) - design, development and construction of the Leyland National Bus which represents a radical new approach to the development of a public service vehicle incorporating maximum pay-load and security at minimal cost and maintenance

1973	The Dunlop Company Limited - development of DENOVO fail-safe tyre and wheel system, as an outstanding contribution to road safety

1977	The Triplex Safety Glass Company Limited - development, manufacture and application to production automobiles of the Ten Twenty safety glass as an outstanding contribution to the safety of automobile occupants

1981	BL Cars Limited - efficiency in automobile design in respect of the utilisation of interior space and predicted low cost of ownership of the Austin Metro Car

1984	BL Technology Limited, and the Design Team led by C.S. King, C.B.E. - a convincing demonstration of automobile design possibilities providing opportunities for significant energy savings as embodied in the experimental vehicle ECV3

1985	Lucas Girling Limited - development of anti-lock braking systems for cars, trucks and motorcycles leading to production of the low cost Stop Control System (SCS) for front wheel drive cars

1995	Rover Group Limited - development of the Holovision system to measure and understand the vibration behaviour and their component parts in order to improve vehicle refinement

1997	MIRA, the Motor Industry Research Association - development of the M-SIS, Side Impact Simulation System

2002	Ricardo plc - development of its I-MoGen (Intelligent Motor Generator) mild hybrid vehicle

2003	Jaguar Cars - development of the all-aluminium body structure for the new XJ Series

2004	Delphi Corporation - development of their twin-floating disc “Maximum Torque Brake” system

2005        Ricardo plc -  work on the development of the Dual Clutch Transmission technology as exemplified by the DCT and Active 4WD for the Bugatti Veyron

2006	The JCB Dieselmax team - development of the world diesel land speed record-breaking ‘JCB DIESELMAX’ streamliner

2008	Group Lotus plc - development of its Versatile Vehicle Architecture (VVA) Chassis technology as exemplified in the Lotus Evora sportscar

2009	Mercedes-Benz High Performance Engines – for the development of Formula One Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems (KERS)

Terms of the Award
1.	The Dewar Challenge Trophy may be awarded in any calendar year by The Committee of the Royal Automobile Club on the recommendation of the Technical Committee for an outstanding British technical achievement in the automotive field during the preceding year or one that is known to have reached a significant stage of development, application or utilisation during that year.

2.	Properly authenticated British achievement in research, development, design, manufacture, utilisation or performance, or in any combination of these, or of any other character deemed appropriate by the Technical Committee, are eligible for consideration (railborne vehicles excluded).

3.	The Trophy will be awarded for one year.

Technical Sub-Committee
The Dewar Trophy Technical Sub-Committee has been set up to study automotive engineering excellence and determines if the candidates meet the strict terms of reference for the awarding of the Trophy in a particular year.

The current members of the Dewar Trophy Technical Sub-Committee are:-

•	John Wood, Chairman (Formally Chief Executive of MIRA Limited)

•	Charles Armstrong-Wilson (Freelance journalist specialising in motor sport)

•	Ben Cussons (Chairman of The Royal Automobile Club Motoring Committee)

•	Steve Cropley (Editor-in-Chief of Autocar magazine)

•	Karl Ludvigsen (Best-selling automotive sport author)

•	Pat Symonds (Marussia F1 technical consultant)

•	Alec Osborn (Engineering consultant, past president of IMechE)