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Monday 20 June 2022

1854 HWM Jaguar

This car competed in the 1950s Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1999.
It's the 1954 HWM Jaguar of Julian Bronson and has a 3,442cc 6-cylinder inline Jaguar engine. John Abecassis and John Heath had built and raced their Formula 2 HWM cars since 1950 and in 1953 built their first sports car on a Formula 2 chassis. The team remained involved in sports car racing till 1956 when John Heath was killed during that year's Mille Miglia race.

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