1936 ERA R5B 'Remus'

I took this photograph in the paddock at Oulton Park at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies Meeting in June 1984.

It's the 1936 ERA R5B of the Hon. Pat Lindsay, originally one of Prince Chula's White Mouse Stable cars driven by Bira and given the name 'Remus'. The car took part in two races at this meeting, the Richard Seaman Memorial Historic Trophy Race and the Cheshire Building Society Allcomers Race. The engine was based on the 6-cylinder inline Riley 12/6 engine, three different versions of which were produced to allow the cars to compete in 1100cc, 1500cc and 2000cc classes of racing and this car has the larger of those engines, officially 1980cc, although for some reason the programme of this event shows the capacity in its first race to be 1983cc and in the second race 1984cc.