1929 Riley Brooklands

This car took part in the Pre War Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000.

It was driven in the race by Richard and Geoffrey Bradford and is a 1929 Riley Brooklands with a tuned version of the Riley Nine's 1,087cc 4-cylinder inline engine. The Riley Nine was designed by two of the Riley brothers, Percy and Stanley, and the Brooklands was the work of John G Parry Thomas and Reid Railton who shortened the chassis by some 15 inches and fitted an undershield the full length of the car. The engine had high compression pistons, special camshafts and 2 carburettors, increasing its output to 50bhp.

1938 Talbot Lago T120

This car competed in the Bill Phillips Trophy Race for Standard and Modified Pre-War Sports-Cars at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Hawthorn Memorial Trophies race meeting at Oulton Park in July 2015.

It's the 1938 Talbot Lago T120 of Richard Bradford that was driven in the race by Geoffrey Bradford. When the Sunbeam Talbot Darracq (STD) concern broke up in 1934 Tony Lago purchased the Talbot part of the company and subsequent models were identified as Talbot Lagos. The T120 has a 2,996cc straight-6 engine designed by former Fiat designer Walter Becchia, who went on to design the engine for the Citroën 2CV.

Here's Geoffrey Bradford at Druids Corner during his race.