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Monday, 5 January 2015

HWM Jaguar

There was a round of the 'Historic Car Championship' at the Historic Car Races organised by the Aston Martin Owners Club at Oulton Park in September 1986, and one of the cars taking part in the race was the car pictured below.
It's a 1955 HWM Jaguar, and the programme of the event shows the entrant of this car to have been Tiffen King Nicholson - apparently a Cumbrian estate agent practice. The car was driven in the race by Kirk Rylands. The Wikipedia article on HWM says this about the sports cars they produced:

'Meanwhile, the first Jaguar-engined HWM sports racing car had appeared in 1953, and this had some success with George Abecassis at the wheel. From then on until 1957, the team was involved in sports car racing both in Britain and on the continent, sometimes beating their Jaguar and Aston Martin Works competitors. After John Heath was killed on the 1956 Mille Miglia in Italy in an HWM Works car, Abecassis did not wish to continue and the works racing programme continued for just a year.'
This is Kirk Rylands at Lodge Corner during the race.

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