Grand Prix's "1st Class" heroes!
03/07/07 16:23 Filed in: Motorsport | News
Royal Mail is celebrating 100 years of UK motorsport with the launch six new stamps featuring British Grand Prix stars.
The two first class letter mail stamps feature Sir Stirling Moss in a 1957 Vanwall 2.5L and Graham Hill in a 1962 BRM P57.
On two wordlwide airmail postcard (54p) stamps are the two Scottish world champions - Jim Clark and Jackie Stewart. Jim Clark, winner of 25 Formula One Grands Prix, is pictured in his 1963 Lotus 25, while Jackie Stewart is in his 1973 Tyrrell 006/2.
The final two stamps are for rest of the world airmail up to 20gm (78p) and feature James Hunt in his 1976 McLaren M23 and Nigel Mansell in a 1986 Williams FW11.
"Over the decades Britain has produced some of the world's finest drivers and built many of the sport's most famous cars," says Julietta Edgar, Royal Mail's Head of Special Stamps. "By bringing the mena and their machines together we have tried to capture the speed, excitement and history of this incredible sport which will now be seen by millions on items of mail every day."
The two first class letter mail stamps feature Sir Stirling Moss in a 1957 Vanwall 2.5L and Graham Hill in a 1962 BRM P57.
On two wordlwide airmail postcard (54p) stamps are the two Scottish world champions - Jim Clark and Jackie Stewart. Jim Clark, winner of 25 Formula One Grands Prix, is pictured in his 1963 Lotus 25, while Jackie Stewart is in his 1973 Tyrrell 006/2.
The final two stamps are for rest of the world airmail up to 20gm (78p) and feature James Hunt in his 1976 McLaren M23 and Nigel Mansell in a 1986 Williams FW11.
"Over the decades Britain has produced some of the world's finest drivers and built many of the sport's most famous cars," says Julietta Edgar, Royal Mail's Head of Special Stamps. "By bringing the mena and their machines together we have tried to capture the speed, excitement and history of this incredible sport which will now be seen by millions on items of mail every day."
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