The Race for Speed

Since the beginning of manned flight, both racing and record-breaking feats have played a prominent part of the aviation scene, each activity stimulating and contributing significantly to the development of new aeroplane and engine projects. After the Second World War, the British aerospace industry boomed.

SARAH CHAMBERS was born in 1952 into the Toogood family, a well-known Hampshire family who founded Toogood & Sons in 1815 based at Millbrook, Southampton. She qualified as a Registered Nurse in the 1970s and spent the next ten years working in Intensive Care, Accident and Emergency and Gynaecology where she became a Nursing Sister. In the 1980s she helped set up an Environmental Control Company for Horticulture. In the 1990s, taking a completely different career choice, Sarah ended her working life as a Company Secretary at a Point of Sale, design and manufacturing company based in the East Midlands, finally retiring in 2007. Sarah has settled in Alderney, the island Tommy Rose loved so much with her husband Brian.