1931 MG C Type Montlhery

I took this photograph at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1999.

It's the 1931 MG C Type Montlhery of Barry Foster which has a 747cc supercharged engine. The MG C Type was developed from a car designed for International speed record attempts and was based on the 847cc MG M Type with a supercharged engine reduced to 743cc to try to capture speed records in the under 750cc class H. In January 1931 Captain George Eyston succeeded in setting speed records for this class with several runs at the Montlhery race track in France at over 100mph and the subsequent production MG C-Type was given the tag 'Montlhery'. At this meeting it was driven by Barry Foster and Mike Dowley in the Pre-War Sports Car Race.