John E. Hutton

Manager of the Labor Department of Vickers Ltd. for many years, JOHN E. HUTTON is an Englishman of wide experience and incomparable enthusiasms. A pioneer motorist, he built his own ”Simplex” in 1901 and was one of the first amateur racers in Europe. He is a master of the fly rod whether fishing for trout or salmon (read his most recent book, Trout and Salmon Fishing), and for half a century he experimented with motorboats, beginning with those which wouldn’t start in the 1890s and coming down to the fishing cruiser he designed in 1939.

Atlantic readers will remember the early motoring adventures which JOHN E. HUTTON described in two articles published in 1948. More recently, he is the author of a book entitled Trout and Salmon Fishing.

As a young man making his mark in Vickers Ltd., JOHN E. HUTTON found the time and the boundless enthusiasm for two hobbies: automobile racing (as an amateur) and fly-fishing. Now, in his maturity, he looks back over five decades of fishing in the chalk streams of England, in the Irish lakes, and in Scotland, New Zealand, and the famous rivers of Canada. His forthcoming book Trout and Salmon Fishing (which will appear on September 20 under the Atlantic-Little, Brown imprint) provides a helping hand, wisdom, and a fund of superb stories for anyone who enjoys fishing. From it we have drawn the paper which follows.

An Englishman who was taught to drive by Charles Rolls of the RollsRoyce, who owned his first ear in 1898, and who built his first car, a “Simplex,” in 1901, JOHN E. MUTTON was one of the pioneer motorists in Europe. In road races Mr. Hutton hit sixty miles an hour years before Barney Oldfield, and he has driven more than “a million miles without causing bodily damage to any human being.”This is the second of his two nostalgic articles.

An Englishman who was taught to drive by Charles Rolls of the Rolls-Royce, who owned his first car in 1898, and who built his first car, a “Simplex,”in 1901, JOHN E. HUTTON was one of the pioneer motorists in Europe, a gentleman who drove for pleasure and who in road races hit sixty miles an hour years before Barney Oldfield. In over half a century Mr. Hutton has driven more than a million miles without an accident. This is the first of two wonderfully nostalgic articles: the second will follow in December.