He was a keen amateur racing driver and was instrumental in developing local airfields Winfield and Charterhall as motor-racing circuits.
[3] An ex-works Aston Martin DBR1 was then purchased and this car finished third at the following year's Le Mans, driven by Clark and Roy Salvadori.
[5] Border Reivers never entered a World Championship F1 race but did compete in several non-championship events, their best result being third place in the 1954 and 1955 Curtis Trophy with Jimmy Somervail's Cooper T20-Bristol.
[6] In 1961 Jim Clark moved on to greater things and with the death of Jock McBain in that same year the team was wound up, but not before Flockhart had some success in Australia and New Zealand running a Cooper T51-Climax under the Reivers' banner.
The Border Reivers name has been revived on several occasions since, most recently running cars in Formula Ford 1600 and sports-car racing.