Paul Emery

Paul Emery was one of those characters in life who was always chasing success, rarely found it, but had a hell of a good time along the way.

He and his father were indefatigable builders of specials, based around whatever components were available at the time. Given the name Emeryson, these machines were always technically interesting in some respect, but the finance essential to their development was always lacking.

Paul, a 500 cc racer of some note, developed an Emeryson-Alta in 1956, in which he finished second, to Moss no less, at Crystal Palace before racing it in the British Grand Prix. He was later to build the Emeryson F1 cars for ENB and Scirocco-Powell before jumping from project to project, most of which remained unrealised, eventually finding a niche building and driving oval-track midget racers.