In 1951 John Cobb sold the Napier Railton to the GQ Parachute Company who used it to test aircraft brake parachutes

 In 1951 John sold the car to the GQ Parachute Company who used it to test aircraft brake parachutes at Dunsfold Airfield- GQ modified the car and fitted it with test equipment to deploy parachutes at high speed and then retract them at about 30 knots.

fyi, In 1949 Cobb leased the Napier Railton to the Romulus Film Company while they make ‘Pandora and The Flying Dutchman’, a film about a racing driver.





https://primotipo.com/2018/08/07/napier-railton/