14 Facts About Ivy Cummings

Ivy Cummings was an early racing car driver, reputedly the youngest person ever to lap Brooklands.

Ivy Leona Cummings was born in Edmonton on 27 October 1901 to Sydney George and Edith Cummings.

Ivy Cummings had two younger brothers, Sydney Edward, and John.

Ivy Cummings became a famous British racing car driver as well as running a garage in Putney Bridge Road, London, where she repaired and sold cars.

In 1922 Ivy Cummings won the Duke of York Long Distance Handicap in the same car.

Ivy Cummings came third in the Essex Senior Short Handicap and then second in the Essex Junior Long Handicap.

Ivy Cummings won the Skegness Speed Trials in this car in 1925.

Ivy Cummings was one of two women in the event, the other being Cecil Christie in a Vauxhall.

Ivy Cummings was uninjured and won a cup for highest average speed.

Ivy Cummings took part in South Harting climb, the Arundell Speed Trial, the Spread Eagle Hill climb, the Aston Clinton hillclimb, the Brighton Speed Trials and the Herne Bay Speed Trails.

Ivy Cummings competed in Junior Car Club High Speed Trial at Brookland and the JCC Half Day Trial.

In 1928, fellow racing driver Winifred Pink wrote that she considered Ivy Cummings to be one of the few women in complete control of a car at 80 miles per hour, alongside Mrs Scott and Ruth Urquhart Dykes.

Ivy Cummings married Stanley Hughes Simpson, a motor engineer, on 25 June 1925 in Holy Trinity, Brompton.

Ivy Cummings stopped running the garages herself in 1928, and gave birth to a daughter Cynthia in 1932.