Gap Hill Climb

Visited Eli Solomon's Singapore Rare Books last Saturday. Eli is famous for Snakes & Devils, a book about the old Singapore Grand Prix at Thomson.

He's working on a few new books now, one of which is about motor racing in South East Asia. One of the events which might make it into the book is the Gap Hill Climb.

This took place along South Buona Vista Road. In the photo above, you can see programmes from the Gap Hill Climb from 1951 and 1952.

Gap on the map

The Gap on Pasir Panjang/ Kent Ridge, on a map. This was commonly called the Gap before the 80's and some herbarium records even list "The Gap". This was mysterious to us biology students until someone must have told us, likely D H Murphy.

Pity the Gap is right where the rather brittle GSGS 4923 Series (1: 63,360) map is torn. This Edition 2-GSGS map was published in 1964 by the "D Survey War Office and Air Ministry."

Must pass to the Herpnet team to catalogue tomorrow. I suspect I need to figure out map citations too.

Originally posted at Otterman speaks, 28 Jun 2006.