page_title: Eric Dymock
section_title: Motorsport
hierarchical_section_title: Eric Dymock / Motorsport
caption_attribution_description: English: Letter on Temple Press Limited paper offering Eric Dymock a job on The Motor magazine
context_page_description: Eric Dymock is a motoring writer and Editorial Director of Dove Publishing Ltd. Trained as an engineer, he became a freelance journalist in the 1950s and a staff writer in 1962. He has written more than two dozen books, available in paper and electronic formats, and has worked in radio and television. For the Dove Publishing website he writes the often nostalgic Eric's Blog under the sub-heading, "Best read in a comfortable chair, with a wee dram of scotch close at hand."
context_section_description: In the mid 1950s Dymock took up motorsport, competing as a rally navigator alongside several drivers including Bill Cleland, father of twice British Touring Car Champion John Cleland. At this time he met a future F1 World Champion about whom he would later write a biography: "I met Jim Clark in Edinburgh in the spring of 1955, at a briefing of the nascent Ecurie Agricole, a motor sporting team of farmers in the forthcoming Scottish Rally. I was not a member, I was not a farmer or even a journalist; I was co-driving a rival car and it seemed a good idea to evaluate the opposition."
  Dymock continued to navigate in rallies after National Service, and also competed in club-level autotests in an MGA, an Austin-Healey Sprite and a Mini.
caption: Letter on Temple Press Limited paper offering Dymock a job on The Motor magazine.
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