I took these photographs in the paddock at the
Silverstone Classic Festival meeting in July 2010.
It's the 1938 ERA E-Type of
Duncan Ricketts, chassis GP1, here with a 1,988cc supercharged engine but
originally with a 1½ litre unit. This and its sister car, chassis GP2 were the
only two E-Type ERAs built. Only one other ERA was built later and that was
the G-Type, designed after the Second
World War to compete with a Bristol 2 litre engine as a Formula 2 car, but
actually competed in the Formula 1 World Championship races in 1952 when they
were run under Formula 2 rules. That car later became the basis for the Bristol
450 sports car that competed at Le Mans in 1953, 1954 and 1955.
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