Raymond Mays

[1] Mays raced for some thirty years, competing in various cars: a Speed-model 1½-litre Hillman,[2] two 1½-litre Bugattis, an unsuccessful supercharged AC,[3] the Vauxhall-Villiers, Mercedes, Invictas, Rileys and ERAs.

He developed his cars with superchargers through Amherst Villiers and this association continued from AC to the Vauxhall-Villiers and then the famous 'White Riley', that eventually became the starting point for ERA.

[citation needed] Mays made his mark on the track in such events as the 1935 German Grand Prix (scene of a famous victory of Tazio Nuvolari), sharing his ERA with Ernst von Delius.

Reflecting on his career in his 1969 Desert Island Discs appearance, he considered his favourite race to be his victory earlier in the same year in the voiturette class of the Eifelrennen, beating such entries as the private ERA of Dick Seaman to take the chequered flag.

The famous picture of Mays losing a wheel at Caerphilly in 1924 was used by French alternative rock band Roadrunners for the cover of their 1993 album Instant Trouble.