MG NE Magnette 'Aramis'

I photographed this car at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2007 and although it bears the racing number 144 it isn't listed in the programme of the event.

It's a 1934 MG NE Magnette and appears to be the car that won the RAC Tourist Trophy Race that year, driven by Charlie Dodson, at the Ards circuit in County Down, Northern Ireland. The car has a 1,271cc 6-cylinder inline engine and was at one time part of a three car team known as the Three Musketeers, and given the name of 'Aramis'.

TVR Griffith

I took this photograph at Luffield corner during the HSCC Historic Road Sports Championship Race at the HSCC's Historic Tribute Meeting at Silverstone in June 2004.

Leading is Laurence Bailey in his 1965 TVR Griffith with a 289 cu in (4.7 litres) V8 engine followed by Graeme Dodd's 3.8 litre 1954 Jaguar XK120. In the background and approaching Priory corner are the yellow 2 litre 1969 Porsche 911T of Nobu Asai and the red 2 litre 1965 Porsche 911 of Michael Masters.

Aeroplanes

Here are photographs of three aeroplanes passing over Hyde, Cheshire about three minutes before landing at Manchester Airport in the afternoon of 14 February 2019.

At 3.34pm, Turkish Airlines flight TK1995 from Istanbul to Manchester, Airbus A321-231, reg. TC-JSU (Lego Livery)

At 3.45pm, Loganair flight LM595 from Inverness to Manchester, Embraer ERJ-135ER, reg. G-SAJB

At 3.50pm, Air X Charter flight AXY1401 from Dusseldorf to Manchester, Bombardier Challenger 850, reg. 9H-JAD

Carel Godin de Beaufort

I took this photograph during practice for the British Grand Prix at Aintree in July 1962.

It's the late Carel Godin de Beaufort approaching Waterway corner in his privately entered 1½ litre flat-4 1960 Porsche 718/2, a car that was a  development of the 718 sports car and originally intended as a Formula 2 car. When the regulations for the World Drivers' Championship were changed with effect from the 1961 season limiting engine capacities to 1½ litres Porsche participated in the Grands Prix with cars driven by Dan Gurney and Jo Bonnier and Carel Godin de Beaufort entered his car under the name of his own  Ecurie Maarsbergen team. In 1962 the Porsche factory progressed to the new 1½ litre flat-8 Porsche 804, but Carel Godin de Beaufort continued to campaign his 718/2 and at the British Grand Prix that year he qualified his car in seventeenth place on the grid and finished the race in fourteenth place.

During practice for the German Grand Prix in August 1964 at the Nürburgring Carel Godin de Beaufort left the track at the Bergwerk corner in his Porsche 718/2 and was thrown out of the car sustaining injuries from which he died in hospital the following day.

Lancia Fulvia

This car competed in the QED Standard Road Sports Championship race at the HSCC's Summer Race Meeting at Oulton Park in July 1992.

It's Paul Howarth's 1968 Lancia Fulvia with a 1,298cc V4 engine and is pictured at Lodge Corner during the race.

On 9 September 2017 I showed a photograph of a 1969 Lancia Fulvia that Paul Howarth drove at Oulton Park in 1995.

Maserati 250F

This car is being readied in the paddock to take part in the VSCC Flockhart Trophy Race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2006.

It's a 1957 Maserati 250F, or at least it's a replica built by Cameron Millar in the early 1980s using many original parts. Cameron Millar acquired a genuine Maserati 250F in 1964 which he kept and raced for 8 years. During this time he purchased the remaining cars and spare parts belonging to the Scuderia Centro Sud who had competed with the cars in the 1950s, and also the chassis jigs from the Maserati factory. He then set about building a series of replicas, using these original parts where possible, that are indistinguishable from the genuine Maserati 250F to such an extent that they are allowed by the FIA to take part in historic racing events. There are 12 cars in all, built between 1970 and the early 1990s and given a chassis number prefixed by the letters 'CM'. This particular car is CM5 and was owned at the time of this Donington Park meeting by David Wenman, and driven in the race by Barrie Williams.

Friday's Ferrari

This is one of the cars I photographed at the Ferrari Racing Days meeting at Silverstone in September 2017.

It's a 1989 Ferrari F40, one of 1,311 produced between 1987 and 1992. It has a twin turbo 2,936cc V8 engine with two overhead camshafts per bank and four valves per cylinder.

I've shown photographs of the Ferrari F40 twice before, on 23 November 2012 and 10 May 2013.

Healey Silverstone

This car was on display at the Northern Classic Car Show at the G-Mex Centre, Manchester in August 1993.

It's a 1949 Healey Silverstone, one of only 105 cars built, and had a 2,443cc 4-cylinder inline Riley engine. This particular car is the first production model, chassis number D1.

Maserati 6CM

This was one of the competitors in the Richard Seaman Memorial Historic Trophy Race at the VSCC's meeting at Oulton Park in July 1987.

It's the 1937 Maserati 6CM of W H (Bill) Summers which was originally built with a six-cylinder inline engine of 1,493cc with a Roots type supercharger. The programme of the event, however, says that this car has a supercharged engine with a capacity of 1,972cc.

Here's the car during the race at Lodge Corner.

I've previously featured photographs of the Maserati 6CM on 27 March 2013 and 30 June 2015.

Jaguar D-Type

This car was in the paddock at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2004 promoting a raffle to raise funds to finance a statue to Mike Hawthorn and 'Lofty' England at Goodwood.

'Lofty' England was the manager of the Jaguar team when they won the Le Mans 24 Hour race in 1955 with a Jaguar D-Type driven by Mike Hawthorn and Ivor Bueb. The car above is a Jaguar D-Type with the same registration and race numbers as the car which won that race and looks identical to that car in every way, except for the rather spindly-looking rear view mirror. It apparently has the chassis number of the Le Mans winning car, XKD505, but like the proverbial 50-year old hammer that's had four new handles and 2 new heads bits and pieces of the car have been swapped around and renewed in the intervening years. It looks like the real thing though, and that's the main thing. The statue was commissioned, and eventually unveiled on 17 September 2005.

Tyrrell P34

This was one of the competitors in the Silverstone International Trophy Race for Pre 1978 Grand Prix cars at the Silverstone Historic Festival meeting in August 2001.

It's the unusual six-wheeled 1977 Tyrrell P34 of Simon Bull, powered by the Cosworth 2,993cc V8 DFV engine, and was driven in the race by Martin Stretton. The designer of the car, Derek Gardner, calculated that the smaller front wheels would reduce front-end lift, the use of four disc brakes instead of two would increase the braking force and the additional rubber on the ground would improve the grip at the front. In 1976 the car was driven by Jody Scheckter and Patrick Depailler, Scheckter finishing in third position in the World Drivers' Championship and Depailler fourth, Tyrrell ending the season in third place in the Constructors' Championship. Jody Scheckter won the Swedish Grand Prix and is the only driver to have won a Grand Prix in a six-wheeled car. In 1977 the drivers were Patrick Depailler and Ronnie Peterson but the car was not as successful, with Depailler and Peterson finishing in eighth and fourteenth places respectively in the Drivers' Championship and Tyrrell in sixth place in the Constructors' Championship.

Eight cars were built and Simon Bull's car is chassis P34/6.

1911 Belsize Tourer

This car took part in the Lancashire Automobile Club's annual Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run, starting at the Exchange Station car park in Manchester, in May 1987.

It's a 1911 Belsize Tourer and the programme of the event had this information about it:

1911 Belsize Tourer,

Reg: B186  4 cylinder  14 hp

(Robert Barker, Trawden, Colne)

This maroon and black five-seater was bought

new by W.B.White of Colne. Manchester-made

rarity, it has a twin-cam side-valve engine, and

was last seen on this Run in 1982.

Marshall and Company was probably Manchester's first car manufacturer, producing its first car at its factory in Clayton in 1897 which was badged as a Marshall. The company became Belsize Motors Limited in 1906 and continued producing cars until it ceased trading in 1925, having been in the hands of the receivers since 1923.

Cooper Bristol T23

This car competed in the HSCC Pre '65 Single Seater Championship race at the Historic Sports Car Club's Spring Historic Race Meeting at Oulton Park in May 1987.

It's the 1953 Cooper Bristol T23 (or MkII) of Graham Burrows and is powered by a 1,971cc straight-6 Bristol engine based on the one in the pre-war BMW 328. The original Cooper Bristol was designed as a Formula 2 car, but found itself involved in Grand Prix racing in 1952 and 1953 when the World Championship was run to Formula 2 regulations.

Here's Graham Burrows at Lodge Corner during the race.

On 10 May 2018 I showed a photograph of this car at Donington Park in 2008.

Friday's Ferrari

Two cars here that took part in 'A Demonstration of Italian Racing Cars' at the VSCC's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005.

On the left is the 2,992cc flat-12 1978 Ferrari 312 T3 that was driven by Gilles Villeneuve in the 1978 F1 season. It's not listed in the programme of the event as one of the cars taking part in the demonstration runs, but it's chassis 034 and was owned at the time by Nick Mason, the driver here being Mark Hales. I've shown photographs of this car previously, the last occasion being 13 October 2017. The car on the right is a later version of the Ferrari 312, the 1980 T5, with the same flat-12 engine. It's John Fenning's car, chassis 048, and was driven here by Mike Littlewood. On 22 June 2012 I showed a photograph of the car in the pit lane at this meeting.

Alfa Romeo P3

This car took part in the Race for Pre 1952 Grand Prix Cars at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000.

It's Rodney Felton's 1934 Alfa Romeo P3 and was driven in the race by Sir John Venables-Llewelyn. The programme of the event said this about the car:

'Alfa Romeo are prominent too, indeed the redoubtable Sir John Venables-Llewelyn will be a contender for outright victory with Rodney Felton's gorgeous P3. The supercharged straight-eight machines were winners in the early '30s, driven by stars like Tazio Nuvolari and Achille Varzi.'

The Alfa Romeo P3 was introduced in 1932 with a twin-supercharged straight-8 engine, initially with a capacity of 2,654cc. In 1933 much of the European racing season was missed due to financial problems at Alfa Romeo, but the cars were eventually handed over to Enzo Ferrari whose Scuderia Ferrari ran the cars for the 1933-1935 seasons. By 1935 the P3s were outclassed by the Mercedes-Benz W25s and Auto Union B Types, but Tazio Nuvolari won a famous victory in the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring with a P3 bored out to 3,822cc.

Maserati 300S

This car is pictured in the pit lane during a practice session at the HGPCA's International Historic Grand Prix meeting at Donington Park in May 2004.

It's the Maserati 300S of Burkhard von Schenk, one of the last to be built and is chassis #3082. This car is often described as a 300SI, implying that it has one of the experimental fuel-injection engines that were tested by Maserati, but I've not been able to confirm that this is so. The car behind is the 1962 Lotus Elite that Malcolm Ricketts and Barry Sewell drove in the 2¼ hour long Gentleman Drivers GT and Sports Endurance Race.

On 23 December 2017 I showed photographs of three Maserati 300S sports cars at Silverstone in 1994, including that of Burkhard von Schenk pictured above.

Austin Healey Sebring Sprite

This car took part in the MG Cockshoot Cup Championship Race at the Jaguar Drivers' Club's Cheshire Cats' Trophy Meeting at Oulton Park in April 1987.

It's Tony Whitehead's Austin Healey Sebring Sprite, which the programme of the event says has a 1,300cc engine. The registration number is XNB 712 and there's a short history of this car here. The photograph was taken just after Foulstons chicane at the beginning of the long run to Knickerbrook.

March 711

This car competed in the Pre-1972 Grand Prix Cars Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in August 1999.

It's the 1971 March 711 of Hasseröder Team Müller and was driven in the race by Peter Müller. The March 711 has a 2,997cc V8 Ford Cosworth DVF engine and was driven in the 1971 season by Ronnie Peterson. The programme of the event said this about the car:

Peter Müller's 'tea-tray' March 711 is an ex-Ronnie Peterson car. In 1971, Ronnie's first full Formula 1 season, the SuperSwede racked up four second places, helping him to second place in the World Championship.

On 9 August 2016 I showed a photograph of another of the March 711 cars, taken at Silverstone in 2001.

Jaguar C-Type

This car competed in the race for 1950s Sports-Racing Cars at the VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Donington Park in June 2003.

It's Nicolas Rossi's Jaguar C-Type replica, which I've seen described as being based on a 1954 Jaguar XK140, but appears to be actually based on a 1952 Jaguar XK120 - and it's described in the programme of the event as a 1952 car. Both the XK120 and XK140 (and the original versions of the later XK150) shared the C-Type's 3,442cc straight-6 engine. The car was one of several C-Type replicas created by Peter Jaye.

On 20 June 2018 I showed a photograph of the same car at a Donington Park meeting in 2004.

Aston Martin Ulster

This car took part in the Pre-1959 Aston Martin Race at the Aston Martin Owners' Club's meeting at Oulton Park in September 1986.

It's Nick Mason's 4-cylinder inline 1,495cc 1935 Aston Martin Ulster, LM21, the last of the Ecurie Bertelli 1934/35 team cars to be built. The only major race it took part in was the 1935 Ulster TT where it finished in 11th place, driven by Tim Rose-Richards.

Here's Nick Mason entering Lodge Corner during the race.

On 10 December 2012 I showed a photograph of this car at Silverstone in 1996.

Friday's Ferrari

I took this photograph at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997.

It's Paul Pappalardo's 1967 Ferrari 412 P, also known as a P3/P4, which was a customer version of the Ferrari 330 P3. Both cars have a 3,967cc V12 engine, but the 330 P3 has Lucas fuel injection whilst the 412 P has six Weber carburettors - which gives it slightly less power than the fuel injection cars and made the private entries less likely to beat the works cars. Paul Pappalardo's car is chassis #0850 and was originally built for the Belgian Ecurie Francorchamps team. hence the yellow Belgian racing colour. Only two cars were originally built as 412 Ps, #0850 and #0854. Two cars were built as 330 P3s, #0844 and #0848, but were later converted to 412 P specification.

BMW Isetta

In June 1987 the Saddleworth Museum arranged a Vintage & Historic Vehicle Display & Run that started in Greenfield and ended in Uppermill. I took this photograph of one if the entrants at the King George V Playing Fields in Uppermill.

It's a 1959 BMW Isetta with a single-cylinder four-stroke 295cc engine. The car was introduced by Iso in 1953 with a 236cc two-stroke engine and cars were soon being built on license in several different countries, including Germany where the BMW Isetta became the best known of the Isetta vehicles. BMW uprated the engine to 295cc, and in 1957 Isetta of Great Britain started producing the car under license in Brighton. The whole of the front of the car  hinges outward, meaning that the steering wheel, which is attached to the door, has to be on the hinged side, so this is a left-hand drive car and is probably one of the German BMW Isettas.

On 15 June 2015 I showed a photograph of a BMW Isetta at the Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally at Heaton Par, Manchester in September 1998.

Porsche 356

I photographed these cars at the VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies Meeting at Donington Park in May 2001.

They're both Porsches, and the nearest car, registration TSY 157, didn't take part in the racing that day. It's a Porsche 356 and the DVLA record tells me that it's a 1960 model, with a 1.6 litre engine. The car on the far side, registration UUL 442, is also a Porsche 356, a 1957/58 model of 1.6 litres, and it competed in the 2¼ hour long Gentlemen Drivers Race for Pre 1966 GT Cars and Pre 1963 Sports Cars driven by Jeff Moyes and Adam Richardson. This car was apparently once owned by Jim Clark who made his racing debut in it, and also used it as his daily transport.

Chevron B19

This car took part in the HSCC Atlantic Computers Historic GT Championship race at the HSCC's Spring Historic Race Meeting at Oulton Park in May 1986.

It's the North Downs Instruments 1971 Chevron B19 and was driven in the race by Tony Gordon. The Chevron B19 was designed to run in the European 2-litre Sports Car Championship and was powered by a 1,790cc 4-cylinder inline Cosworth FVC engine.

Porsche Carrera 6

This car competed in the Pre-1972 Le Mans Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998.

It's the 1,991cc flat-6 1966 Porsche Carrera 6 of Julian Majzub, also known as the Porsche 906. The earlier Porsche 904 with a flat-4 1,966 engine was too heavy and underpowered to compete with the Ferrari Dino 206 SP so the 906 was designed with a lighter chassis and body, and the six-cylinder engine was also lighter as well as being more powerful. These new cars took Porsche to 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th places in the Le Mans 24 Hour race behind three Ford GT40 Mk II cars with engines 3½ times their size.

I've featured the Carrera 6 four times previously, on 24 February 2015, 26 October 2015, 2 May 2017 and 10 January 2018.

Bedford OB Duple Vista

This was one of the vehicles taking part in the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally at Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1993.

Not listed in the programme of the event, it's a 29 seater 1949 Bedford OB Duple Vista apparently provided new to McKinlays of Prestonpans in 1949 where it had the registration number SS 7376. Later it was with Tours (Isle of Man) where it was given the number 1949 MN and was then acquired by East Yorkshire Motor Services where it was again re-registered as KSU 381. I've also seen a photograph of the vehicle in Shetland taken in 1973 when it was with Sandwick Transport, and still had the original SS 7376 registration number. I believe it again has this original number, though it retains the East Yorkshire livery.

Donington Park Museum

The Donington Park museum, generally accepted as the world's greatest motor sport museum, closed its doors for the last time in November 2018. I've visited the place several times and remember that in the early years there were two or three cars on the roof of the Coppice Cafe which was near the entrance door as you went in. This is a photograph I took of one of those cars on a visit in May 1986.

This is a 1972 BRM P180 designed by Tony Southgate and with a 2,998cc BRM V12 engine. It's one of two cars built and this one is chassis P180/01. This site gives the full racing history of both the P180s.

On 14 June 2016 I showed a photograph of this car at Silverstone in July 1999 in a display marking a tribute to BRM.

Friday's Ferrari

This car was tucked away in a corner of the paddock at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2018.

This is a 2010 Ferrari California which has a retractable hard top and is the first front-engined Ferrari to have a V8 engine. It's a Ferrari F135 engine with a capacity of 4,297cc incorporating twin overhead camshafts and four valves per cylinder. The original Ferrari California was one of the 250 series of cars, the Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder that was produced between 1957 and 1963, in LWB then SWB form, and was designed to appeal to the North American market. A 365 California was produced between 1966 and 1967 with a 4,390cc engine based on the 330's 4 litre unit, but only 14 of this model were built. The most recent California is the one shown above which was produced from 2008 and updated to the Ferrari California 30 in 2012. In 2014 the Ferrari California T was introduced with a twin-turbo 3,855cc V8 engine.

  

On 25 May 2018 I showed photographs of a Ferrari California that I took at Silverstone in September 2017.