Richard Seaman Memorial Historic Trophy Race

I took this photograph just past Old Hall Corner in the early laps of the Richard Seaman Memorial Historic Trophy Race at Oulton Park in June 1973.

Car number 6 is the 1930/23 Bentley Napier (also known as the Napier Bentley) of David Llewellyn with Martin Morris alongside in his 1936 ERA R11B 'Humphrey'. The programme of the event said that the favourites today would be;

'....Neil Corner's ERA R4D, and Martin Morris's 2 litre ERA R11B, with a beam front axle and the engine set back in the chassis for Ken Wharton's sprinting activities with it. An unknown quantity to challenge these cars is David Llewellyn's Bentley Napier, powered by a 12 cylinder 24 litre Napier Lion aero engine. This car proved to be faster than the ERAs at Silverstone in April, but may be less successful on the twists and turns of Oulton Park, though this has yet to be proved.'

The Bentley Napier is here in it's original guise, and on 16 August 2015 I showed how it looked with newer bodywork at Donington Park in May 2001.

Mercedes Benz W154

Twice previously, on 13 October 2015 and 16 August 2017 I've shown photographs of the Mercedes Benz W154 that Tony Dron demonstrated at the Richard Seaman Memorial Trophy meeting at Donington Park in June 2008. Here are three more photographs I took of the car that day.

Here's the car in the pit garage.....

.....and later being prepared for one of its demonstration runs.

Here's Tony Dron at Redgate Corner during one of the demonstration runs.

Friday's Ferrari

One of the many Ferraris on view at the Ferrari Racing Days meeting at Silverstone in September 2017.

This is a 1997 Ferrari F355 Berlinetta, one of 4,871 cars produced between 1994 and 1999. It has a 3,496cc V8 engine with twin overhead camshafts on each bank of cylinders and 5 valves per cylinder. The F355 replaced the Ferrari 348, and was itself replaced by the Ferrari 360.

Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1

This was one of the vehicles entered in the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally at Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1998.

It's a 1967 Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1 and this was what programme of the event said about it:

Leyland Atlantean/Roe  1967                                                                    OBU 163F

Entered by     Oldham 163 Preservation Group, Oldham

New to Oldham Corporation in 1967, where it was used for 14 years, until it was withdrawn in 1981. It was then purchased by Darrenets dance troupe where it travelled for many miles, including the Isle of Man until it was bought for preservation and restored.

On 24 January 2016 I showed a photograph of the first production Leyland Atlantean built, which was delivered to Wallasey Corporation in 1958.

Gordini T15

This car competed in the Motor Sport HGPCA Pre '52 Grand Prix Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival Meeting at Silverstone in July 1995.

It's John Foster's 1948 Gordini T15, with a 1,430cc 4-cylinder inline Simca-based engine.  The T15 took part in World Championship Grand Prix races from 1950 to 1953 and was superseded by the T16.

On 20 March 2016 I showed photographs of this same car at Silverstone in July 2000.

Maserati Tipo 26

This is one of the cars that took part in the Richard Seaman Memorial Vintage Trophy Race at the VSCC's meeting at Oulton Park in June 1971.

It's the 1930 Maserati Tipo 26M (chassis 2514) of Lord Doune and was driven in the race by Martin Grant Peterkin. The 26M was designed as a single-seater car (the 'M' standing for Monoposto) and thirteen examples were built, with a 2½ litre straight-8 engine. The car above appears to be one of the six which were made into the Tipo 26M Sport for endurance racing, taking part in such races as the Mille Miglia and Targa Florio. A note in the programme about this race at Oulton Park says:

'Lord Doune, from Perthshire, has entered the Bologna challenge, his beautiful 2.5 litre Maserati to be driven by Martin Grant Peterkin on leave from Redford Barracks, Edinburgh.'

Intrepid RM-1

This car took part in the Group C/GTP Sports Cars race at the VSCC's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2007.

It's the 1991 Intrepid RM-1 of Brian Devries, built to contest the GTP (Grand Touring Prototype) series of races. It has a 439 cu in (7.2 litres) Chevrolet small-block V8 engine and competed in the 1991, 1992 and 1993 seasons.

Mercedes-Benz 300SLR

The five times World Drivers Champion Juan Manuel Fangio was featured at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1994 with a display of some of the cars that he drove in the 1940s and 50s, and the car below was one that was in that display.

Not the actual car that Fangio drove, this is the Mercedes-Benz 300SLR with which Stirling Moss and co-driver Denis Jenkinson won the 1955 Mille Miglia - Fangio, driving solo, finished in second place over half an hour behind in second place in an identical car. The car is being driven here by John Surtees in a parade of the cars from the display, in which Stirling Moss drove one of the 1955 Mercedes-Benz W196 Grand Prix Cars.

On 12 August 2015 I showed photographs of this car in the paddock at Silverstone.

Berliet

This car is in the Exchange Station car park in Manchester waiting for the start of the Lancashire Automobile Club's Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in May 1987.

It's a 1912 Berliet, and the entry in the programme of the event says this about it:

'1912 Berliet

Reg. NA 237  4 cylinder  20/25 hp

(Richard Hill, Ashton-in-Makerfield)

This is the actual 1912 Motor Show Berliet. It 

was bought new at the show by Manchester

architect Joseph Sunlight. He used it until 1926

when it was stored on blocks. Recent

restoration by present owner and bodywork by

William Arnold of Manchester.'

The DVLA say that it was last taxed up to February 2007, has a 4,398cc engine, and it's colour is shown as maroon. I've seen elsewhere that it's a Berliet 22hp Type L14 enclosed Limousine and is chassis  #9660.

Friday's Ferrari

This is one of the cars taking part in the Intermarque Championship Race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2015.

It's Nicky Paul-Barron's 1996 Ferrari F355 Challenge, with a V8 engine of 3,496cc. The car was produced from 1995 to 1999 and intended for the Ferrari Challenge series of races.

108 examples of the cars were built for the series of races in both Europe and North America.

This is Nicky Paul-Barron at Druids Corner during the morning practice session.

Here's the car during the race at Knickerbrook.

Lotus 16

This car competed in the Flockhart Trophy Race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2006.

It's Philip Walker's 1959 Lotus 16 with what the programme of the event says is a 2,495cc engine - presumably the 4-cylinder Coventry Climax FPF unit. The Lotus 16 was raced by Team Lotus, and private entrants, from 1958 to 1960 with little success in World Championship races. Colin Chapman had to wait until the Monaco Grand Prix of 1960 for his first Lotus victory, achieved by Stirling Moss in Rob Walker's Lotus 18.

On 3 September 2014 I showed a photograph of Philip Walker in this car at Oulton Park in 1996.

Jaguar XKSS

I photographed this car on a trailer at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1993, presumably headed  for the Jaguar Car Club's display area.

It's a 1957 Jaguar XKSS, a car that was produced by converting 16 unsold D-Type Jaguars into road cars - it would have been 25, but 9 cars were destroyed in a fire at the Browns Lane plant before they were completed. In 2016 Jaguar announced a new production run of 9 cars to replace the ones destroyed in the fire.

On 25 June 2014 I showed a photograph of a (replica?) Jaguar XKSS that I had taken at Silverstone in 1995.

Bugatti Type 35B

This car took part in a Ten Lap Scratch Race in Memory of Sir Henry Seagrave at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in August 1996.

It's the 1925 2,262cc supercharged 8-cylinder inline Bugatti Type 35B of B.C.Moore, driven in the race by John Ward. The Type 35 was the most successful of the pre-war Bugattis and 45 examples of the Type 35B were produced in the middle and late 1920s.

Maserati 250F

The SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005 promoted Maserati as the featured marque, and in particular the 2½ litre 250F Formula One car. A total of 16 of the 250Fs appeared at the meeting, either competing or being displayed on and off the track, and here is one of them.

This is Josef Rettenmaier returning to the paddock after a practice session in his 1954 car, chassis #2508, which was once owned by Stirling Moss. There were short notes in the programme of the event giving details for each Maserati 250F chassis number, and this is what it said about Josef Rettenmaier's car:

'2508

Ordered by Stirling Moss through the Shell-BP company office in Italy. Raced by Moss until he joined Mercedes-Benz, and later loaned to various drivers including Mike Hawthorn, Bob Gerard and John Fitch. Sold to Ross Jensen in New Zealand and returned to the UK in 1964. Now owned by Josef Rettenmaier in Germany.'

Lola T70

This car took part in the RJB Mining Championship Race at the Historic Sports Car Club's Summer Race Meeting at Oulton Park in July 1995.

It's the 1967 Lola T70 of Richard Dodkins which the programme of the event says has a 5,700cc engine. The Lola T70 was powered by a variety of engines but this seems to suggest that it has the Chevrolet small-block 350 cu in unit, and it appears to be the Lola T70 Mk3, chassis SL73/109, that was offered for sale here by Hemmings. The car is pictured above at Lodge Corner during the race.

Porsche 356A

This car was one of many that were displayed at the various car club sites at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992.

It's a 1958 Porsche 356A, with a 1,588cc twin overhead cam flat-4 engine. 21,045 of these cars were produced between 1955 and 1959.

Friday's Ferrari

I took this photograph at McLean's Corner during a round of the Shell Ferrari Maserati Historic Challenge series at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2004.

Both cars are Ferrari 250GT SWB  models with the 2,953cc V12 engine which powered all the Ferrari 250 models. Number 616 is David Franklin in his 1960 car, chassis #1917GT, who is leading the 1962 model of Nicolas Zapata which is chassis #3327GT.

I've previously shown photographs taken at this meeting of both these cars, David Franklin's on 29 December 2017 and Nicolas Zapata's on 13 April 2018 - both of them in the pit lane during a practice session.

Rolls Royce 15hp

I took this photograph at the Doune Motor Museum near Stirling during a family holiday in Scotland in August 1996.

It's a 1905 Rolls Royce 15hp - apparently the second oldest Rolls Royce in existence - and a brochure that I purchased at the museum says this about it:

'This is the second oldest Rolls Royce in the world and is the only 3-cylinder to survive out of six made by Royce Ltd., Cooke Street, Manchester, and sold by C.S.Rolls & Co., London. Rolls Royce Ltd. was not formed until 1906 but it was agreed that cars made by Royce should be called Rolls Royce. The car is No. 26330 and was the second 3-cylinder to leave the works and was used as a demonstration car by Rolls in London under registration No. LC 2872 and was later sold to the Honorable Capt. T. Dundas of Northallerton in September 1905. This gentleman died in November 1906 and the car was advertised in the Autocar in January 1907 but was not sold. It was again advertised in June 1907 and sold to the Countess of Louden, Galston, and in March 1908 it came into the possession of the late Douglas Dick of Kilmarnock who drove the first car in his native town in 1896. In 1920 a shying horse took a dislike to the car and kicked in the offside. Mr Adam McG. Dick, the late owner was told to take it to the 'graveyard for old cars' but by subterfuge the order was disobeyed and now SD 661 is affectionately known as 'The Old Girl'. It is almost all original with the exception of some restoration on the body and upholstery.
Owner: Royal Scottish Automobile Club.'

Jaguar E-Type Lightweight

This car competed in two races at the Aston Martin Owners Club's Autumn Historic Car Races meeting at Oulton Park in September 1993.

Described in the programme of the event as Allen Lloyd's 4.2 litre 1964 Jaguar E-Type, it has the looks of one of the 12 Lightweight competition models built in the 1960s, but I can't find anything to confirm that this is a genuine Lightweight. Eighteen chassis numbers were set aside in 1963 for the Lightweight models, but only 12 were built - the six additional cars were eventually built in 2014-15.

Here's the car at what was then Foulston's chicane (now Britten's) in the Inter-Marque Championship Race.....

.....and here later in the day at Lodge Corner in the MG Car Club/AMOC Thoroughbred & Classic Sports Car Championship Race. Allen Lloyd was at one time President of the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust.

BRM P57

I took this photograph of a car approaching Waterway Corner during practice for the British Grand Prix in July 1962.

It's Graham Hill in the 1962 BRM P57 with which he qualified in fifth position on the grid, and ended the race in fourth place almost 2 minutes behind the winner Jim Clark in his Lotus 25. The 1962 BRM P57 was originally designated the P578 on account of the 1,498cc V8 engine replacing the previous season's straight-4 Coventry Climax FPF unit. This car is chassis #P578/1 which Graham Hill drove for most of that season, winning four of the Grands Prix and the World Drivers' Championship.

On 7 August 2013 I Showed photographs of this car, and team mate Richie Ginther's, in the paddock during that practice session.

Wolf WR1

These two cars are competing in the Grand Prix Masters Race at the Silverstone Historic Tribute meeting in June 2004.

Leading is the 1977 Wolf WR1 of Max Samuel-Camps ahead of the 1968 BRM P126 of David Brown. The Wolf has a 2,993cc Ford Cosworth V8 DFV engine and was driven in the 1977 World Drivers Championship season by Jody Scheckter, finishing second in the Championship with three wins. The BRM has a 2,998cc V12 BRM engine and is chassis P126-01, driven in the 1968 season for the Reg Parnell Racing team by Piers Courage who only had a few minor placings and finished well down the final Championship table.

Aston Martin Project 214 Replica

This car competed in the 2¼ hour long Gentlemen Drivers GT and Sports Endurance Race at the HGPCA's International Historic Grand Prix meeting at Donington Park in May 2004.

It's shown in the programme of the event as a 1961 3.9 litre Aston Martin DB4 GT to be driven in the race by Wolfgang Friedrichs and David Clark, but it is actually Wolfgang Friedrichs' replica of the Aston Martin Project 214 cars that were built in 1963.

I showed photographs of the only remaining original Project 214 car on 23 January 2017 and 7 June 2018.

AC/GN

This car took part in the Richard Seaman Memorial Trophy Race for Vintage Racing Cars at the VSCC's meeting at Oulton Park in June 1993.

It's listed in the programme of the event as a 1,998cc 1924/28 AC/GN, known as 'Beetle', owned by Freddie Giles and driven in the race by his son Jonathan Giles.

Friday's Ferrari

I photographed this car in one of the pit garages at the Silverstone Classic meeting in July 2010.

It's a very convincing looking 1957 Ferrari 250 TR Scaglietti Spyder, but it started off life as a 1961 Ferrari 250 GTE, chassis number 2349GT. The car was severely damaged in a garage fire in Sweden in 1972 and rebuilt in its current form by Neil Twyman.

On 7 November 2014 I showed a photograph that I had taken of this car at Silverstone in July 2000.

Citroën 11 CV

I photographed this car at the Northern Classic Car Show in the G-Mex Centre in Manchester in August 1991.

It's a 1948 Citroën 11 CV, a car that was produced from 1934 to 1957, and has a 1,911cc 4-cylinder inline engine. It was succeeded in 1957 by the ID19. This car is still registered with the DVLA who say that the colour of the vehicle is now black.

Alfa Romeo 158

This car took part in a Shell Historic Ferrari Maserati Challenge race at the VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies race meeting at Donington Park in June 2003.

It's Carlo Vögele's 1939 1,479cc Alfa Romeo 158, in the pit lane during a practice session, and the programme of the event said this about the car:

'The 158 Alfetta, a voiturette, of Carlo Vögele (14) with its Columbo designed straight-eight engine first appeared in 1938 at the Coppa Ciano where the three cars entered and came first, second and seventh. With only a single stage supercharger, the engine was said to develop 195bhp at 7500rpm. A Formula One Grand Prix car from 1948, in its final form in 1951 the engine had two-stage supercharging, developed something like 400bhp plus after the superchargers had taken some 135bhp, and did 1.6mpg, according to David Hodges. This car had independent suspension all round with trailing links at the front. You may have asked how the Alfa Romeo cars feature in a Ferrari Maserati challenge, well the competition Alfas  were prepared by the Scuderia Ferrari in the 1930s.'

On 22 February 2018 I showed photographs of this car at Silverstone in 1999.

Cooper T51 and ERA Delage

These unlikely looking competitors took part in the 12 Lap Allcomers Race at the VSCC's Richard Seaman Trophy Vintage Car Races meeting at Oulton Park in August 1992.

Number 1 is Martin Stretton in his ex-BRP/Yeoman Credit 1960 2,495cc Cooper T51 and 229 is Chris Mayman in his cousin Anthony Mayman's 1927/36 ERA Delage, a 1927 Delage 15 S8 Grand Prix car with a 1,982cc supercharged 1936 ERA engine. The Cooper is passing the ERA Delage going into Lodge Corner.

The Coopers were raced by the British Racing Partnership in 1959, mainly in Formula 2 races with a 1½ litre Borgward engine, then by the Yeoman Credit team in both Formula 1 and some Formula 2 races in the 1960 season with 2½ litre and 1½ litre Coventry Climax engines.

The ERA Delage was created by Rob Walker who replaced the original engine of a 1927 Delage Grand Prix car with an ERA engine.

On 19 December 2016 I showed a photograph of one of the ex-BRP/Yeoman Credit Racing team's Cooper T51s, and on 9 April 2018 photographs of the ERA Delage.

De Tomaso

I took this photograph when I was wandering round the displays of the different car clubs in the paddock at the Silverstone Historic Festival meeting in August 2001.

It's the display of the De Tomaso UK Drivers Club, and foremost are a couple of Guaras and two or three Panteras. Hiding away it looks like there's a Mangusta and a Longchamp.

Two Maseratis

These cars both belonged to Burkhard von Schenk and competed in a 10 Lap Scratch Race for 1950s Sports Cars at the VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Donington Park in May 2001.

Number 40 is a 1955 Maserati A6GCS which belonged to Maserati's A6 series of cars and was driven in the race by Robertino Wild. The A6GCS was built from 1953 to 1955 to compete in the 2 litre class of the World Sportscar Championship and had a 1,986cc straight-6 engine. Burkhard von Schenk's car is chassis #2098.

Burkhard von Schenk himself drove this car in the Donington Park race, and it's a 1957 Maserati 300S, a car built from 1955 to 1959 to compete in the 3-litre class of the World Sportscar Championship. The 300S had a 2,991cc straight-6 engine and Burkhard von Schenk's car is chassis #3082.

Bristol MW6G

This was one of the entrants in the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally at Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1996.

It's a 1967 Bristol MW6G with Eastern Coachworks body that was supplied new to the Western National Omnibus Company of Exeter in February 1967 with fleet number 1436. From 1970 it operated on the company's Royal Blue Services and continued in service with the Western National Omnibus Company until 1977. The MW6G was built with a Gardner diesel engine of either 5-cylinders (5HLW) or 6-cylinders (6HLW) and the DVLA record says that HDV 641E has an 8.4 litre unit, which would seem to indicate the 8,370cc 6-cylinder 6HLW engine. The programme of the event said this about the bus:

Bristol MW6G, ECW C39F, 1967                                                                                   HDV 641E

Royal Blue 1436

Entered by           D Brown, Hatfield, Doncaster

Former Operator - Western National (Royal Blue). Last ever  MW chassis  to be produced.

This vehicle carries an ECW Series II Coach Body. It was new in 1967 to Western National

as a Royal Blue reserve vehicle.