Great Britain, Hertfordshire County Automobile Club, silver award medal by Vaughton, arms with winged wheel supporters, reverse wreath, named (Consumption Trial, 1905, won by Mr C. Edge), hallmarked Birmingham, 1905, 32mm; Motor Cycling Club, bronze award medal by Mappin & Webb, standing figures with shields in the shape of a V-twin engine, reverse named (Hill Climb, May 2nd 1908, Car, S.F. Edge), 29mm. [2]. First with minor edge bruise, otherwise both very fine; with clips and rings for suspension (£50-100)

Selwyn Francis Edge was a pioneer motorist and propagandist of the motor car. In the early 1890s Edge formed a friendship with cyclist Montagu Napier, grandson of the founder of D. Napier & Son. When Napier decided to build cars bearing his own name he and Edge founded S.F. Edge Ltd in 1900 to build them. Edge competed in several of the major European town-to-town races in 1901 and 1902, driving one of his Lambeth-built Napiers. In a 35hp Napier he won the Gordon-Bennett Cup race in 1902, from Paris to Innsbruck – the first important win for a British car in international competition. Later Edge turned his attention to motor boat racing and in 1903 his Napier 1 set an unofficial world water speed record of 24.9 mph in Cork Harbour. Edge retained a close interest in Brooklands Track, the speedbowl near Weybridge constructed in 1907. Just prior to the official opening, Edge completed a 24-hour run, during which he covered 1,581 miles, at an average speed just short of 66mph. This effort set new world land speed and distance records that remained unbeaten for over 20 years.