Elva Mk IV

The Donington International Historic Grand Prix meeting at Donington Park in May 2004 organised by the British Racing & Sports Car Club included a 2¼ hour 'Gentleman Drivers GT and Sports Endurance Race'. One of the cars entered in this race was the one pictured below.

It's an Elva Mk IV and driving in the race was shared by Simon Peach and Shaun Bromley.

Swallow Doretti

The Swallow Doretti was a sports car built by the Swallow Coachbuilding Co (then owned by the Tube Investments Group) between 1954 and 1955 using mechanicals from the Triumph TR2. Production of the car stopped after only 10 months, apparently because Jaguar, a major customer of the TI Group, were so worried about the effect on sales of their XK120 that they threatened to look elsewhere for a supplier of their components if manufacture of the Swallow Doretti continued.

This is a Swallow Doretti that I photographed at the Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 1984. It may be difficult to make out, but the badge on the bonnet of the car isn't that of a Swallow Doretti - it actually depicts a scorpion. The car was built and owned by a Mr Jim Williams of North Wales and has a very interesting history, which you can read about here.

Scammell Scarab

This is one of the vehicles entered in the 1996 Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally organised by the Greater Manchester Transport Society and which took place in September of that year. The photograph was taken at Heaton Park, Manchester.

It's a 1961 Scammell Scarab, a tractor unit which was designed to facilitate the delivery of goods in busy built-up areas. Because of their manoeuvrability they were used extensively by British Railways and I remember seeing the one used at the local railway station when I was a youngster. The programme of the event shows the entrant as J.L. & B.Nuttall of Dyserth, Denbighshire

Triumph TR3

This photograph was taken at the Northern Classic Car Show in G-Mex, Manchester in August 1994.

It's a 1955 Triunph TR3, the front grille being the main external feature which distinguished it from the earlier TR2 although it was also fitted with a more powerful engine. You can read about the full range of Triumph TR models here
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Boeing 737

Photographs taken at 10:22am on 9 January 2015 of Norwegian (Anders Celsius Livery) Flight DY1326 passing over Hyde and preparing to land at Manchester Airport.

It's a Boeing 737-86N flying from Stavanger to Manchester

The aircraft registration number is LN-NON

The Wikipedia article on the Norwegian airline says this about the livery:

'Norwegian's aircraft livery is white with a blue ribbon and signal red nose. The vertical tail plane feature portraits of historically distinctive Norwegians, Swedes, Danes and Finns which together with the red nose signals the airline's change-maker spirit.'

Friday's Ferrari

This is a car I've featured twice before, on 18 October 2013 and 19 December 2014

This photograph was taken at the Tourist Trophy race at Oulton Park in May 1965, and it's a 1963 Ferrari 250GTO entered that day by John Danway Racing and driven by Mike Salmon. It finished the race in 12th position on aggregate over two heats and was owned at that time by Gordon Durham, the serial number being 4399GT. 

Three Jaguars

This was a display by the Historic Sports Car Club at the Silverstone Historic Festival meeting in August 2001.

Only one prototype Jaguar XJ13 was ever built and the first car here is a replica constructed by Proteus Cars. The second car is a 1952 Jaguar C-type, chassis number XKC004, and the third car is a 1955 Jaguar D-type long nose. Only 6 of these cars were built and the one in this photograph bears the registration number and race number of the 1955 Le Mans winning car. It isn't necessarily that car though, and could even be another Proteus replica.