This was one of several Edwardian racing cars that collected marshals from their posts around the circuits at the start of the lunch break at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005 and returned them to their posts later.
I've not been able to find out a lot information about the car, and much of it is contradictory. The FL car was originally built by Henri de la Fresnaye of Levallois-Perret, to the north-west of Paris, from 1908 to 1909, and in 1910 production was taken over by Société Générale des Voitures Automobiles Otto of Paris. Presumably the FL name comes from Fresnaye and Levallois-Perret. The first FL car was a 4-cylinder 2,010cc model and in 1911 a larger model was introduced with a 6-cylinder 3,015cc engine. The DVLA record says that FL 290 is a 1909 car but has a 3 litre engine, and all the photographs I've seen of this actual car say that it has a 5 litre unit. There was no race for Edwardian cars so this car didn't compete at the meeting and wasn't listed in the programme, but it had taken part in a commemorative run during the morning about which the programme said this:
THE PIONEER SPIRIT LIVES ON
The commemorative Grand Prix Run is for cars built from 1906 to '14.
The road event will run over approximately 30 miles. The first car will be
flagged away from the Donington Collection at 9.30am on Sunday.
Look out for these cars on track during the lunch break as they circulate
to collect marshals from their posts.
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