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Sallon Ralph

Year working: 1899 – 1999

Cartoonist for the Daily Mirror magazine painted series of caricatures of drivers and motor cycle riders for Shell Mex and BP. Sallon was born Rachmiel David Zelon in 1899 in the village of Sheps, near Warsaw, in what was then Russian-controlled Poland. He came to England with his family when he was five.

Further reference

Motor-Racing Drivers Past and Present by Sallon published Shell-Mex and BP Ltd. 1956. Motor Cycle Personalities Past and Present by Sallon published Shell-Mex and BP Ltd. 1957

http://opal.kent.ac.uk/cartoonx-cgi/artist.py?id=153

Motor Racing Driver Past and Present

George Eyston page from Motor Racing Drivers Past and Present