Drag racer.
Born at Vancouver, British Columbia on 28 August 1942, one of five children of Charles William Hansell (1913-1997) and Marjorie Louise Moyse (1913-2011), in the 1960s he held several world records in drag racing with cars that he built himself and operated at Bison Dragways. In 1968, he achieved a National Hot Rod Association record in Oklahoma. The last dragster he co-owned in 1988 was, at that time, the #2 vehicle in the world. He was one of the last co-founders of Dynamic Machine, in 1970. He and wife Beverley had two daughters. He died at Clearwater, Florida on 18 February 2011.
Marriage registration [Charles William Hansell, Marjorie Louise Moyse], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Congratulations,” Winnipeg Free Press, 9 September 1942, page 10.
Obituary [Charles William Hansell], Winnipeg Free Press, 25 January 1997, page 61.
Obituary [Marjorie Louise Hansell], Winnipeg Free Press, 4 July 2001.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 26 February 2011.
“Manitoba loses premier drag racer,” Winnipeg Free Press, 3 June 2011, page 83.
“They shall not be forgotten” by Kevin Rollason, Winnipeg Free Press, 31 December 2011, page i4.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 8 December 2024
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