HWM

This car took part in the 10-Lap Race for Pre-1961 Racing Cars at the VSCC's Richard Seaman Trophy Vintage Car Races meeting at Oulton Park in August 1992.

It's Kirk Rylands' HWM, described in the programme of the event as a 1952/57 car with an engine capacity of 3,442cc (the car had been given a Jaguar engine, hence the '52/57'). HWM competed in Formula 2 races from 1950 to 1953, and in the last two of those years the World Championship for Drivers was run under Formula 2 rules. I showed photographs of one of the 1951 cars on 31 December 2012 and 4 June 2017. By 1952 the cars had become uncompetitive and a revised model, as pictured, was introduced, but this car was also largely outclassed by the opposition. The best result they achieved was probably when Paul Frère and Peter Collins finished in second and third places to Emmanuel de Graffenried's Maserati A6GCM in the ADAC Eifelrennen race at the Nürburgring in 1953.