Their six wins were all in the County Championship, while they drew with Oxford University and lost to the West Indies.
Tommy Mitchell was a miner who changed to cricket as a result of the General Strike and in the next 10 years took over 1200 wickets for Derbyshire.
Albert Alderman came through Sam Cadman's coaching scheme and scored over 12,000 runs for Derbyshire in the next 20 years.
Two of the Hill Wood brothers Charles and Denis made their debuts and went on the play a couple of seasons for Derbyshire.
Harry Storer was top scorer and Leslie Townsend took most wickets.