Friday's Ferrari

I photographed this car in the paddock at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2018.

It's a 1980 Ferrari 308 GTS, powered by a 2,926cc V8 engine with twin overhead camshafts on each bank and two valves per cylinder. This car replaced the Ferrari Dino 246 GTS and was in turn replaced by the Ferrari 328 GTS.

The numbering of this car, and its predecessor and successor followed the then Ferrari convention of using the engine capacity then the number of cylinders. Hence the Dino 246 was 2.4 litres and 6 cylinders, the 308 was 3.0 litres and 8 cylinders, and the 328 was 3.2 litres and 8 cylinders.

On 3 June 2016 I showed a photograph of this car at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in 2015.

Lotus 98T

This is one of the cars that took part in celebrating 50 years of Formula One at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000.

It's the Lotus 98T that was driven by Ayrton Senna and Johnny Dumfries in the 1986 F1 season. The Lotus 98T was a development of the 97T and was powered by a 1,494cc V6 Renault-Gordini Turbo engine. Ayrton Senna won two races, and with four second place finishes and two thirds finished in fourth place in the World Drivers Championship, Johnnie Dumfries finishing thirteenth. Lotus finished the season in third place in the Constructors Championship.

Here's the car leaving the pit lane on one of the demonstration runs carried out by a variety of cars during the meeting.

On 15 November 2015 I showed photographs of the Lotus 98T (and 97T) at Donington Park in 2003.

Airbus A380

At 6.55pm on 8 August 2018 this aircraft flew over Hyde, Cheshire just a few minutes before landing at Manchester Airport.

It's Emirates flight EK19 from Dubai.

It's an Airbus A380 and is the world's largest passenger aircraft.

Emirates currently has 104 of these aircraft, with orders for a further 58.

The registration number of this one is A6-EOY.

There are three daily Emirates flights from Dubai to Manchester, each one using the A380.

Morgan Super Aero

This car competed in the Seaman Trophy Race for Vintage Racing Cars at the VSCC's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in May 2011.

It's the 1929 Morgan Super Aero of Mrs Sue Darbyshire and has a V-twin JAP engine of 1,229cc.

Brabham BT33

This car took part in the Pre-1972 Classic Grand Prix Cars Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1999.

It's Duncan Dayton's 3 litre Cosworth DFV-engined 1970 Brabham BT33, the car with which the Brabham team finished in 4th place in the 1970 Constructors Championship. Jack Brabham finished in 6th place in the Drivers Championship, winning one race with two second places and a third. Team mate Rolf Stommelen managed one third place and finished in 11th place in the Championship. Duncan Dayton's car is chassis #BT33/1 which was driven by Rolf Stommelen in that season.

Singer Le Mans

This was one of the entrants in the Lancashire Automobile Club's Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run, starting from The Village Hotel at Cheadle, Stockport, in June 1993.

It's a 1933 Singer Le Mans, and the only information the programme of the event had about it was that the owner was Eric Watkiss of Ansdell, Lytham, Lancashire. The Le Mans was a variant of the 972cc inline-4 Singer 9 model with a more highly tuned engine and other improvements that made it successful at a variety of motoring events, including Le Mans.  There's a Singer Owners' Club for owners of all Singer cars.

Osella BMW

This car competed in the RJB Mining Group 6 Championship/HSCC 2 Litre Championship race at the Historic Sports Car Club's Summer Race Meeting at Oulton Park in July 1992.

The entry in the programme of the event is for the 1975 2 litre Osella BMW of Lawrence Rose, but I had crossed out the '1975' and written '1972' instead. In 1992 Lawrence Rose appears to have been driving a 1976 Osella PA3, chassis number PA4-039, that was originally a 1974 Osella Abarth 1600cc PA3, chassis number PA2-009. It may be that when it was converted to a PA3 it was given a BMW engine, but I can't see where 1972 comes into it. The above photograph, and the one below, were taken at Lodge Corner.

Friday's Ferrari

This is a car I photographed at the Donington Park Museum in March 1996.

It's the car that started the Donington Grand Prix Collection, a 1949 Ferrari 125, chassis #114. Originally a works race car it was bought by Peter Whitehead in 1951, the first time that Enzo Ferrari had sold a Grand Prix car to a private owner. It was designed by Valerio Colotti with Gioacchino Colombo's 1,497cc supercharged V12 engine. Donington Park owner Tom Wheatcroft bought the car in 1964 and completely restored it after it had spent time in Australia and at one point had a Chevrolet V8 engine.

I've previously shown photographs of the car on 7 February 2014 and 23 December 2016.

Lister Bristol

I photographed this car at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998 where it was one of the display cars and didn't take any part in the racing.

It's one of Brian Lister's early cars, built in 1954, and was powered by the 1,971cc Bristol 6-cylinder inline engine derived from the pre-war BMW 328 unit. This particular car was chiefly driven by Jack Sears, but the Lister Bristol achieved much success in the hands of Archie Scott-Brown in the mid-1950s. Lister went on to develop the more well-known Lister Jaguar in 1957, utilising the 3,442cc Jaguar D-Type engine.

On 17 July 2013 I showed photographs of this car at the Coys meeting at Silverstone in 1999 when it was driven by Barry Wood.

The Flockhart Trophy Race

I took this photograph at Redgate corner on the first lap of the Flockhart Trophy Race at Donington Park at the VSCC's SeeRed meeting in June 2008.

Leading is Philip Walker in his 1959 2½ litre Lotus 16 from the 1957 2 litre Cooper T43 of Andrew Smith. Behind them is the 1958 3.8 litre Lister Jaguar Monza of Rod Jolley, and at the rear is Hubert Fabri's 1957 3 litre Aston Martin DBR4 just behind Ian Nuthall's 1952 2 litre Alta F2.

ERA

Here are photographs of some of the ERAs that took part in the Richard Seaman Memorial Historic Trophy Race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in July 1987.

This is the six-cylinder 1½ litre supercharged engine of the 1935 ERA R1B, then owned by Sue Marsh and driven in the race by Duncan Ricketts. This car was originally owned by Dick Seaman.

This is R11B, named 'Humphrey' by its first owner Reggie Tongue after the ERA founder, Humphrey Cook. It was originally a 1½ litre car in 1936, but was given a 2 litre supercharged engine in the late 1940s. This car was owned, and driven, by Martin Morris from 1962 until his death in 2006 when it passed to his son David.

This is Martin Morris in R11B at Lodge Corner during the race.

This is R5B, a 1936 1½ litre car purchased by Prince Chula for his White Mouse team and driven by his cousin Prince Bira. Prince Chula already owned R2B and the two cars were named 'Romulus' (R2B) and 'Remus' (R5B) after the Roman twins. Driven here at Lodge Corner by Ludovic Lindsay who inherited the car from his late father the Hon. Patrick Lindsay in 1986. The programme of this event shows the engine capacity as 1,986cc supercharged.

This is R12B, a 1936 car with rather a messy history, originally with a 2 litre engine, but here with a 1½ litre supercharged unit. Another car that was once a White Mouse team car driven by Prince Bira and named 'Hanuman', it's here being driven at Lodge Corner by Bill Morris and trying to pass Rodney Felton in a 1934 Alfa Romeo P3.

Lastly, again at Lodge Corner, we have Anthony Mayman in R4D, a 1936 car with 2 litre supercharged engine.

I've shown photographs previously of two other ERAs taking part at this meeting: on 3 May 2015 I featured R4A, and on 30 April 2017 it was R8C.

You can read the history of all the ERAs, including the confusion about the identity of R12B here.

Ford F3L

This car took part in the Pre-1972 Le Mans Cars Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997.

It's a 1968 Ford F3L - also known as a Ford P68 - which was designed by Len Bailey and built by Alan Mann Racing for them to compete in the Group 6 prototype class in the 1968 season. The car has a 2,993cc V8 Ford Cosworth DFV engine but proved to be very unreliable, not finishing in any of the races in which it took part in 1968. In 1997 the car was owned by David Piper and was driven at Silverstone by Andrew Fletcher.

Maserati 8CM

Three weeks ago I featured a 1955 Lancia D50 recreation and showed a photograph of the car being driven in a demonstration at the 2005 SeeRed meeting at Donington Park by Kevin Wheatcroft. Here's another photograph from that demonstration run.

The car on the right is Kevin Wheatcroft again in the Lancia, but leading is his father, the late Tom Wheatcroft, the man who resurrected the Donington Park circuit in the 1970s and founded the Donington Grand Prix Collection museum. Tom is driving the museum's 1934 Maserati 8CM, chassis #3018, that was driven by Tazio Nuvolari in the 1934 racing season. The 8CM had a supercharged 2,991cc straight-8 engine but after some success in the 1933 season it was outclassed by the Alfa Romeo, Mercedes Benz and Auto Union cars in 1934.

Brabham BT35

This car competed in the HSCC Pre '71 Single Seater Championship race at the Historic Sports Car Club's Spring Historic Race Meeting at Oulton Park in May 1987.

It's Nick Overall's 1971 Brabham BT35 which the programme of the event says had a 1,598cc engine and raced in the Formula 2 Class. The car was apparently once owned by Bob Gerard and may be chassis number 43.

Friday's Ferrari

This is one of the cars that I photographed at the Ferrari Racing Days event at Silverstone in September 2017.

It's a 1979 Ferrari 308 GT4, one of 2,826 cars made during the production run between 1973 and 1980. The car has a 2,926cc V8 engine with twin overhead camshafts on each bank of cylinders and two valves per cylinder.

Kurtis Offenhauser KK500G

I took this photograph at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2004 where the car took part in the Ron Flockhart Memorial Trophy Race.

Shown in the programme of the event as the Kurtis-Indy single seater of John Guyatt, it's a 4.2 litre 1957 Kurtis Offenhauser KK500G and it was driven in the race by Stuart Harper. This car took part in the 1957 Indianapolis 500 race as the Meguiar Mirror Glaze Special, and also took part in the USA v Europe Race of Two Worlds at Monza in 1957 and 1958 driven by Ray Crawford.

On 23 November 2017 I showed another photograph of the car that I had taken at this Donington Park meeting.

Chrysler LeBaron

This car had passed me on the streets around Hyde a few times over several months, but earlier this month I came across it in a car park and was able to take photographs of it for the first time.

It's a third generation Chrysler LeBaron convertible with a 2½ litre 4-cylinder inline engine. The third generation car was produced from 1987 to 1995, and this is a 1989 model.

SS Jaguar 100

During the Jaguar Drivers' Club's Cheshire Cats' Trophy Meeting at Oulton Park in April 1987 there was a parade of Jaguar cars round the circuit, and this is one of those taking part.

It's a 1938 SS Jaguar 100, one of 118 cars built from 1938 to 1941 with the 3,485cc straight-6 engine. The earlier version of the car had a 2,663cc engine and 191 examples were built between 1935 and 1939. That car was the first of the SS cars to bear the Jaguar name.

Riley RMD

This is one of the vehicles exhibited at the Northern Classic Car Show at Belle Vue, Manchester in September 1986.

It's a 1949 Riley RMD, 502 of which were produced between 1949 and 1951 with a 4-cylinder inline 2,443cc engine. There's a Riley RM Club for owners of all the RM series of Riley cars. The DVLA website says that the colour of ECT 209 is now white.

Maserati 8CTF

This car was on display at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in August 1996 in what looks like the Maserati Club's marquee.

It's the 2,991cc straight-8 supercharged 1938 Maserati 8CTF of E Dean Butler, one of three cars built to challenge the all-conquering German Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union cars. The car proved capable of matching the German cars for speed, but lacked the reliability of its rivals. This car, chassis #3030, is one of two cars which were sold in 1939 to Lucy O'Reilly Schell (her name is on the side of this car), the other car being sold to American Mike Boyle and which as the Boyle Special went on to win the Indianapolis 500 mile race in 1939 and 1940.

On 29 September 2015 I showed a photograph of this car at Donington Park in 2003.

Cooper T45

I photographed this car in the paddock at Donington Park at the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2007.

It's the 1958 Cooper T45 of Scotty Taylor, chassis F2-8-58, which the programme of the event says has a 1,960cc engine. The Cooper T45's first F1 win was at the Monaco Grand Prix in 1958 with Rob Walker's 2-litre car driven by Frenchman Maurice Trintignant - this followed the win by Stirling Moss in Rob Walker's Cooper T43 in Argentina the same year. The car pictured above was originally owned by Jim Russell who raced the car in 1958 and the early part of 1959 until an accident at Le Mans ended his racing career. Jim Russell had started a school for potential racing drivers in 1956 based at Snetterton, and the Cooper was put to use at this school and also entered in appropriate races driven by Mike McKee. You can see Jim Russell's signature on the body of the car between the front wheel and the rear-view mirror.

Friday's Ferrari

This car took part in the Cottage Furniture Inter-Marque Championship Race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's Autumn Historic Car Races meeting at Oulton Park in September 1992.

It's described in the programme of the event as a 1982 Ferrari Boxer, entered  and driven in the race by Michael Millard of Birmingham. Its correct designation is a Ferrari 512BBi with a 4,943cc flat-12 engine and is the last of the flat-12 engined cars, 1,007 being produced between 1981 and 1984. It's pictured here during the race at what looks to be the approach to Lodge Corner.

Although not displayed on the car, the programme says that the registration number of the car is J7648, meaning that the car is registered in Jersey.

Geoff Duke

This is one of the competitors in the Aintree Trophy Race at the BARC Bank Holiday meeting at Aintree in August 1960.

It's four times World 500cc Motorcycle Champion (and twice 350cc Champion) Geoff Duke who drove a Reg Parnell Racing Formula 2 Lotus 18 in the race, but failed to finish. He started his motorcycle career with Norton, racing with them from 1950 to 1952, winning one 500cc and two 350cc Championships. In 1953 he switched to the Italian Gilera team remaining with them until he retired from motorcycle racing in 1959, winning three further 500cc Championships. In 1953 he had joined the Aston Martin car racing team and partnered Peter Collins in an Aston Martin DB3 at the Sebring 12 Hour race, but retired following an accident. After his retirement from motorcycle racing he tried his hand at motor racing again, joining the Reg Parnell Racing team and racing for them at several events, including this one at Aintree.

Leyland Titan

This bus took part in the Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally at Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1995.

It's a 1964 Leyland Titan PD2A/24, and the programme of the event said this about it:

Leyland Titan PD2A/24, East Lancs H65R, 1964                 ABV33B

Blackburn Corporation 33

Entered by                                    Blackburn PD2 Preservation Group

The last of the class in passenger service when withdrawn in March 1981.

Restored in the 1972 livery of cream and green.

It was originally delivered to Blackburn Corporation in March 1964 and entered service with fleet number 33 on 1st May 1964. On 1st April 1974 it passed to the Borough of Blackburn as a result of the reorganisation caused by the Local Government Act of 1972.

Lotus Eleven

I photographed this car at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1995.

This Lotus Eleven was in the paddock, but it didn't compete at the meeting. The Lotus Eleven, with body designed by Frank Costin, was produced from 1956 to 1958 and was fitted with a variety of engines, chiefly the 1,098cc Coventry Climax FWA and the 1,172cc Ford 4-cylinder engines. Around 270 cars were built in that time. I don't have much information about this particular car except that it has, or at least at one time had, a Coventry Climax 1,460cc engine. The DVLA, incidentally, now has no record of the 47 KML number plate.

Aston Martin DBR4

Two of these cars, originally known as the Aston Martin DBR4/250, took part in the Flockhart Trophy Race at the VSCC's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2006.

This is the 1960 Aston Martin DBR4 of David Wenman, and was driven in the race by John Clark. Originally with a 2,493cc straight-6 engine, the programme of the event gave the capacity of this car as 2,892cc.

On 2 August 2017 I showed a photograph of David Wenman's car at Donington Park in September 2004.

This is Hubert Fabri's car and the programme gives the engine capacity as 2,992cc, the car being powered by an Aston Martin DB3S sportscar engine. On 7 May 2016 I showed a photograph of this car at Donington Park in June 2008.

Austin Healey 100

This car took part in the Park Place Thoroughbred Sports Championship race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's Historic Car Races meeting at Oulton Park in September 1986.

It's Andrew Usher's 1954 Austin Healey 100 pictured going into Old Hall Corner at the end of the start/finish straight. Two versions of the Austin Healey 100 were produced from 1953 to 1956, the BN1 from 1953 to 1955 and the BN2 from 1955 to 1956, the main difference being that the BN2 had a four-speed gearbox instead of the three-speed of the BN1. Both the BN1 and BN2 were powered by the 2,660cc 4-cylinder inline engine of the unsuccessful Austin A90 Atlantic. Logically Andrew Usher's car should be a BN1 model, but the two-tone paintwork was only introduced with the BN2, and the car also has the louvered bonnet of the 100M that was a high-performance version of the BN2. The programme of the event gives the registration number of this car as VFM 580, but it's much more likely to be UFM 580, a car that I featured on 25 June 2015.

Alpine A310

I photographed this car in one of the car parks at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1994.

It's an Alpine A310, a car that was a successor to the Renault-based Alpine A110 and was produced between 1971 and 1985. The first model, built from 1971 to 1976, had a 4-cylinder inline 1,605cc Gordini-modified engine, later increased to 1,647cc. In 1976 the car was restyled and received a more powerful 2,664cc V6 engine. I've no details about this particular car, but it appears to be one of the V6-engined models and has a German registration, the HF on the number plate indicating that it comes from the town of Herford in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Friday's Ferrari

I took this photograph at McLeans Corner during the HGPCA Race for Pre-1961 Grand Prix Cars at the Historic Grand Prix Cars Association's International Historic Grand Prix meeting at Donington Park in May 2004.

It's Tony Smith in his 1960 Ferrari Dino 246 F1 car, originally with a 2½ litre engine in line with the then current Formula 1 regulations, but the programme of this event says it has a 2,952cc engine - presumably the Columbo V12 unit as fitted to the 250 series cars in the 1950s & 60s.

On 24 February 2017 I showed a photograph of this car in the paddock at Donington Park in September 2005.

Cooper F2

This car competed in the HSCC Pre '65 Historic Grand Prix Car Championship race at the HSCC's Spring Historic Race Meeting at Oulton Park in May 1986.

Shown in the programme of the event simply as a 1,460cc 1956 Cooper F2 it's finished in the Rob Walker colours of dark blue with a white noseband. The entrant is shown in the programme as Gerry Hann and the driver as Alan Miles.

Cooper records for the early F2 cars are not comprehensive, but if it's a 1956 car it should be a T41 and have a Coventry Climax FWB engine. Of the four T41s built in 1956 the first two were works cars, then one for Rob Walker and one for Ken Wharton. The works cars do not appear to have been given chassis numbers at that time, but it is believed that the Rob Walker car was F2-1-56 and Ken Wharton's F2-2-56. Two T41s were built in 1957 for New Zealand drivers to race in South Africa and numbered F2-1-57 and F2-2-57, and Gerry Hann's car is apparently supposed to be F2-2-57, although there is a suspicion that it should really be F2-1-56.

Here's the car during the race on what appears to be the pit straight.

Austin 16/6 Burnham

This car is pictured in the Exchange Station car park in Manchester before the start of the Lancashire Automobile Club's Manchester to Blackpool Veteran & Vintage Car Run in June 1986.

It's the 1928 6-cylinder inline 2,249cc Austin 16/6 Burnham, and the programme of the event said this about the car:

1928 Austin Burnham 16/6

Reg: CW 8471  6 Cylinder  15.9 hp  2200cc

(Jerome Fellows, New Longton, Preston)

An early example of this 6-cylinder model, it

has been in constant use for much of its life.

Only four owners from new, the previous

owner having had the car for 27 years.