ERA-Riley Special

This car competed in the Seaman Historic Trophy race at the Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Donington Park in May 2001.

It's one of the ERA 'specials', the 1936 ERA-Riley of Keith Knight, and the programme of the event said this about the car:

'Another ERA engined car is Keith Knight's ERA-Riley (68) the chassis of which is based on the works Rileys that used an independent front suspension, patented by André Girling and similar to that used on the Daimler cars of the period.'

Percy McClure compaigned the car before the war at Brooklands, Donington Park, Prescott and Shelsley Walsh, and after the war it was driven at Silverstone in the first British Grand Prix in 1948 by Geoff Richardson.