1907 Napier 60hp

This is one of the cars that took part in the Lancashire Automobile Club's Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in 1976 and is pictured just after the start at the junction of Peter Street \nd Lower Mosley Street.

It's the National Motor Museum's 1907 Napier 60hp, and the programme of the event has this note about the car:

National Motor Museum (Lord Montague of Beaulieu).

1907 Napier 60 h.p.

The Napier was the world's first commercially successful six-cylinder car. This one has been rebuilt as a replica of the vehicle with which S.F.Edge averaged 65.91 m.p.h. for 24 hours at Brooklands in 1907. Backed by Edge, greatest of the industry's early publicists, Napier was the first British factory to race internationally, and their victory in the 1902 Gordon Bennett Cup was followed two years later by their original "six". In the early years of the "Silver Ghost", the Napier was Rolls-Royce's principal rival. Car manufacture was abandoned in 1924, when Napier concentrated on aero-engines.