Three Cars

Three interesting cars that I've photographed recently, two in Hyde and one in Trafford.

This was on a supermarket car park in Hyde, and it's a 1964 Wolseley 16/60. This Pininfarina-styled car was produced from 1961 to 1971 and was an updated version of the earlier Wolseley 15/60. It has a 4-cylinder inline 1,622cc BMC B-series engine, and as a BMC car it has close relatives in the Austin A60 Cambridge, MG Magnette Mk IV, Morris Oxford VI and Riley 4/72.

I spotted this car parked off Stretford Road in Trafford. It's a 2021 Porsche Taycan, an electrically powered car which is available with a motor driving just the rear wheels, or with an additional motor driving the front wheels also.

I took this photograph on another supermarket car park in Hyde, and it's a 1978 MGB Roadster. The MGB was produced from 1962 to 1980 with several updates, and this is one of the later models with the rubber bumpers that were fitted as a result of the impact regulations first introduced in the United States in the early 1970s. It has the 4-cylinder inline 1,798cc BMC B-Series engine.

1957 Kurtis Offenhauser KK500G

This was one of the display cars at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in August 1996.

It's the 1957 Kurtis KK500G which was entered in the Indianapolis 500 in 1957 and 1958 as the Meguiar Mirror Glaze Special driven by Ray Crawford, but failed to qualify on both occasions. It was entered for the race another four times and its best result was a sixth place in 1962 in the hands of Don Davis. Ray Crawford also took part in the Race of Two Worlds round the banked oval at Monza with the car in both 1957 and 1958, one-sided exhibition events that pitted American Indianapolis cars against a motley collection of European cars. The race in both years consisted of three heats with the winner being the best car over the three races. In 1957 Ray Crawford's results in the heats were seventh, fourth and retired, and in 1958 tenth, eighth and fourth. The board in front of the car reads:

1957 KURTIS OFFENHAUSER

KK500G

RAN INDIANAPOLIS 6 TIMES

BEST RESULT 1962

Came 6^th at 149 MPH

 

Ran in the Famous

MONZANAPOLIS Races

When European GP Cars

Raced against INDY Cars

Resulting in a walkover for the

INDY Cars

 

In 1957 came 6^th

In 1958 came 4^th

500 PLUS HP FUEL INJECTION

1927 Crossley 20.9 Tourer

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 and Vintage Car Run in May 1987.

It's the 1927 Crossley 20.9 Tourer of John Levaggi, a car that was built not far from there in Gorton. Crossley Brothers made their first car in 1904 and the vehicle manufacturing part of the company was registered as Crossley Motors Limited in 1906. Cars were made at their Napier Street - later renamed Crossley Street - site from 1904 to 1938, and buses till 1958. The Crossley 20.9 had the 6-cylinder inline engine from the Crossley 18/50, the 2,692cc unit being bored out to 3,198cc - though the DVLA record shows the capacity of NF 5377's engine to be 2,687cc. The programme of the event says very little about the car:

Crossley 20.9 Tourer

Reg: NF 5377   6 cylinder    21 hp

(John Levaggi, Stalybridge)

1926 Bugatti Type 35B

I took this photograph at Lodge Corner during the Richard Seaman Memorial Vintage Trophy Race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in June 1981.

It's Hamish Moffatt in Frank Wall's 1926 Bugatti Type 35B and has the 8-cylinder inline 2,262cc supercharged engine. A note in the programme of the event says this about the car:

'Last year's winner, Hamish Moffatt, again drives Frank Wall's Type 35B Bugatti, which was fitted with a single seater body after the last war by Peter Stubberfield who was very successful with it in hill climbs.'

Friday's Ferrari

This car competed in the Shell Ferrari Historical Challenge race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997.

It's the 1954 Ferrari 500 Mondial of Geoffrey Williams with a 4-cylinder inline 1,985cc engine designed by Aurelio Lampredi and body by Scaglietti. It is chassis #0454MD and was originally provided for US racing driver Bob Said. It was sold in 1955 to Tony Palmer-Morewood and remained in the USA - at one point with a Chevrolet engine - until the early 1990s when it came to the UK and was acquired by Geoffrey Williams.

1973 Atkinson Borderer

I took this photograph at the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally at Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1993.

It's a 1973 Atkinson Borderer in the livery of Fred Smith & Sons of Bury, but it isn't listed in the programme of the event. It's currently in the Bury Transport Museum on the site of the East Lancashire Railway.

1959 BRM P25

This car competed in the Flockhart Trophy Race for pre-1961 Front-Engined Racing Cars at the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in May 2011.

It's Anthony Ditheridge's 1959 BRM P25, although the programme of the event shows it as number 140. BRM’s in-period Project 25 classification covered the engine design alone, the spaceframe chassis structure comprising Project 27. This car is he ninth of the team’s 2½-litre 4-cylinder Type 25s to be built and was the fourth to use the `1958 spaceframe Project 27 chassis in place of an original semi-monocoque design which had been used for the preceding five cars. Those semi-monocoque BRM Type 25s built from 1955 to 1957 are recorded within the team archive as cars ‘251’ to ‘255’. The subsequent six pure spaceframe cars built 1958-1959 were then referred to as ‘256’ to ‘2511’, even though their Project 27 chassis frames were numbered in sequence ‘27/1’ to ‘27/6’. Hence, this car was referred to in contemporary BRM team records – which survive today – as ‘259’, while its specific chassis frame stamping reads – again perfectly correctly – ‘27/4’. The P25 was said to be the fastest of the 1954-1960 Formula 1 era, partly due to the oversquare (102.87 mm bore x 74.93 mm stroke) engine allowing for larger valves to be fitted. The car was plagued with reliability problems, however, and the only Grand Prix win was Jo Bonnier's victory in the 1959 Dutch Grand Prix in chassis 258.

The car behind the BRM is the 1956 Willment Climax of Barry Cannell which took part in the 1950s Sports Racing Cars race, and has a 4-cylinder inline 1,963cc Climax FPF engine.

1957 Maserai 250F

This car took part in the Allcomers Scratch Race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 1975.

It's the 1957 Maserati 250F of Neil Corner and has the 6-cylinder inline 2,490cc engine. It was campaigned mainly by Jean Behra in the 1957 season, but was also driven that year by Juan Fangio and Harry Schell, and is chassis #2528. This car has been owned and raced by the Corner family, Nigel and his father Neil, since 1972. Behind the Maserati is a Bugatti, possibly a Type 55?

1958 Lister Jaguar

This car took part in the Louis Vuitton '50s Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1995.

It's David Ham's 1958 Lister Jaguar with the 3,781cc 6-cylinder inline XK engine. This car has been owned and raced by the Ham family, David and Simon, since 1969. Originally owned by Scottish businessman Sir Alexander Miller, it was sold first to hill climb specialist Phil Scragg who installed a Chevrolet engine in place of  the original Jaguar unit, then by George Tatham, before ending up with David Ham who restored the car and put back the original Jaguar engine.

1921 Burrell Showman's Road Locomotive

I've just come across these two photographs that I took at the Gee Cross Fete at Hyde, Cheshire in June 1995.

It's a 1921 Burrell Showman's Road Locomotive, engine number 3886 and named 'Lord Lascelles'. Chas Burrell and Sons of Thetford, Norfolk started making traction engines in 1856 and continued to make them until 1929. The company became part of the Agricultural and General Engineers combine in 1919 which was wound up in 1932.

1914 TT Humber

This car competed in two of the races at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 1973.

It's Kenneth Neve's 1914 TT Humber, the only survivor of the three Humbers that took part in the Tourist Trophy race in the Isle of Man in that year and it has a 4-cylinder inline 3,295cc engine. A note in the programme of the event says this about the owner:

'Kenneth Neve, whose 1911 Silver Ghost Rolls-Royce is the oldest car in the concours, is also driving the oldest car in the races, a 1911 TT Humber. He is an ex-President of the VSCC, and lives locally just outside Northwich.'

LaFerrari Aperta

This is one of the cars that were displayed in the paddock at the Ferrari Racing Days meeting at Silverstone in September 2017.

It's a LaFerrari Aperta, the Spider version of the LaFerrari which has a removable carbon-fibre hardtop and also a removable canvas soft top. The Aperta was produced from 2016 to 2018 and has a 6,262cc V12 Ferrari F140FE engine with an output of 800 CV together with a 120 kW electric motor giving an additional 163 CV.

1968 Lotus 49B

This car was in the Donington Park museum for many years, and I took this photograph on my last visit there in September 2014.

It's a 1968 Lotus 49B and the book 'Great Racing Cars of the Donington Collection' says this about it:

'Lotus-powered-by-Ford

dawn of a new domination

Seven successive World Championship titles - from 1968 to 1974 – have so far been won using Cosworth-Ford V8 Formula 1 engines. In that period these Northampton-built Keith Duckworth–designed units have become the most numerous in Grand Prix history, and have won more Championship-qualifying events and more Formula 1 races than any other engine. The Cosworth-Ford engine story began late in 1965, when Colin Chapman was casting about for a 3-litre engine to power his cars in the new Grand Prix Formula, due to start in the following year. Duckworth’s company had a wonderful success record with the Ford-based minor formulae engines, and through Chapman he admitted interest in building a Formula 1 unit. Ford of Britain came forward with £100,000 to sponsor its development, and on 4 June 1967 the first ‘FORD’ Grand Prix engines made their shattering debut in brand-new Lotus 49 cars. This was in the Dutch Grand Prix, at Zandvoort, where Graham Hill put his 49 on pole position in practice, and led for the first eleven laps before retiring with cam-drive failure in the new engine. Then his team-mate Jim Clark took over, and he built up an ever-increasing lead, at record-breaking speeds, to score a fairy-tale win first time out. The die was cast. The Lotus-Fords took pole position in every one of the eight remaining events run that season, and Clark won three more of them. He failed in his bid to regain the World Championship, as chassis, engine and gearbox failures took their toll, but the new engine and Chapman’s new Maurice Phillippe-designed car had established themselves as the standard of their time. Duckworth’s engine was a neat, practical 90-degree light-alloy V8, with four valves per cylinder, twin overhead camshafts per bank and a pedigree developed from the four-cylinder Cortina-based ‘FVA’ 1600cc Formula 2 engine. The V8 was virtually two FVA blocks mounted in a common crankcase. It produced an honest 400 horsepower in its original form, and for 1968 Ford made it available to al interested customers, depriving Team Lotus of the exclusive use hey had enjoyed in that first season. McLaren and the Tyrrell Matra team confirmed orders, and with Team Lotus they shared the new season’s honours, confirming the Cosworth-Ford’s superiority. Clark won the opening race in South Africa, to set a career record of twenty-five GP wins, and then dominated the Tasman Championship in 2½ litre Lotus-Ford 49s, wearing the red-and-white livery of Lotus’ new John Player Gold Leaf tobacco sponsors. It looked a certain Jim Clark season, but in April he was killed in a trifling Formula 2 race at Hockenheim, Graham Hill bounced back for Lotus to win in Spain and at Monaco, and after a season-long struggle with Jackie Stewart in the Tyrrell Matra-Ford and the works McLaren Fords he won the final round in Mexico City to clinch his second World Drivers’ Championship and the first Constructors’ title for Lotus-Ford. Stewart won three Grand Prix races, Denny Hulme won two, Bruce McLaren himself won in Belgium and Swiss driver Jo Siffert scored probably the most popular success of the year by winning the British GP in Rob Walker’s private Lotus-Ford 49B. Phillippe took advantage of the new engine’s ability to be used as a stressed chassis member in similar style to the BRM H16. The Lotus 49’s monocoque chassis terminated abruptly behind the cockpit, leaving a vertical bulkhead to which the engine was rigidly bolted. Rear suspension was carried on the engine and gearbox assembly, and for maintenance it was possible to undo a few bolts and connections and wheel the entire rear end of the car away from the forward nacelle. In 1968 a modified version was developed, with lengthened wheelbase, revised suspension and early aerodynamic aids in the form of nose aerofoils and an upswept engine cowling. A lightweight Hewland gearbox replaced the original ZF unit, and this model became known as the Lotus 49B, winning at Monaco, Brands Hatch and Mexico City. In 1969 Jochen Rindt joined Graham Hill in the works ‘Gold Leaf’ team 49Bs. Hill won at Monaco for a staggering fifth time, and Rindt became Stewart’s closest competitor during the season. After forty-eight unsuccessful attempts he finally won his first Grand Prix, in America, where Hill crashed his car and was seriously injured. The historic old Lotus was finally retired from the front line in 1970, when the futuristic Lotus 72 came along to give Rindt his tragically posthumous World Championship title, but he drove one of the obsolete ‘49C’ cars to that exciting last corner victory at Monaco to close this chapter on a classic racing car’s supremely successful life.'

The agreement between Ford and Lotus specified that Ford had to be given one of the cars for promotional purposes, and as all the existing cars were needed for the race track Lotus built this car, chassis 49B/12, for Ford and it never actually competed in period. After it had served its purpose Ford sold the car to Donington Park's Tom Wheatcroft for his collection.

1962 Porsche 804

 I took this photograph in the paddock at Aintree in July 1962 during practice for the British Grand Prix.

It's the 1962 Porsche 804 of Dan Gurney in which he qualified in sixth position on the grid and finished the race in ninth position. Porsche had first built a single seat racing car in 1959, the 718, using the 1½ litre flat-four boxer engine from their sports car to create a Formula 2 car. In 1961 the engine capacity for Formula 1 cars was reduced to 1½ litres and the Porsche 718 was able to compete in Formula 1 races that season. The Porsche 804 was built to compete in Formula 1 races in the 1962 season using a new Flat-eight engine of 1,494cc, and with this car Dan Gurney won the French Grand Prix and finished in third place in the German Grand Prix to end the season in fifth place in the World Drivers' Championship. His team mate Jo Bonnier's best finish was fifth place in the Monaco Grand Prix and he finished in fifteenth place in the Championship. Porsche finished in fifth place in the World Constructors' Championship. That first place in the 1962 French Grand Prix is Porsche's only Grand Prix victory.

1931 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Monza

 I took this photograph at the VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 1985.

It's a 1931 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Monza which has an 8-cylinder inline 2,336cc engine designed by Vittorio Jano. It gained the 'Monza' name by winning the 1931 Italian Grand Prix at Monza driven by Tazio Nuvolari and Giuseppi Campari, and Tazio Nuvolari also won the 1931 and 1932 Targa Florio races in one of these cars. Originally designed as a racing car it was later also produced as a road car.

Alfa Romeo BAT 9 Concept Car

I took this photograph at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1994. 

It's one of the three Alfa Romeo BAT cars produced between 1953 and 1955, BAT 5, BAT 7 and BAT 9, and this is the 1955 car, BAT 9, with BAT 5 on the left and BAT 7 on the right. They were part of the Coys auction which was held on the Saturday evening of the weekend-long meeting. The BAT here stands for Berlinetta Aerodinamica Tecnica and the cars were built in a joint project by Alfa Romeo and the Italian coachbuilding firm Bertone, being largely the brainchild of Franco Scaglione of Bertone.

1971 McLaren M19A

I took this photograph at Old Hall Corner during practice for the 1972 Gold Cup race at Oulton Park in May 1972.

It's Denny Hulme in his 1971 McLaren M19A, chassis M19A/1, and he qualified for the race in second place to Peter Gethin's BRM P160B, though he won the race the following day ahead of Emerson Fittipaldi's Lotus 72 and Tim Schenken's Surtees TS9. The McLaren M19A was designed by Ralph Bellamy and was powered by the 2,993cc V8 Cosworth DFV engine. In the 1972 World Drivers' Championship Denny Hulme finished in third place to Emerson Fittipaldi and Jackie Stewart, winning just the South African Grand Prix, McLaren also finishing in third place in the World Constructors' Championship.

1930 Riley Brooklands

This car took part in three races at the Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in May 2011, including the two hour long VSCC Team Relay Race for Pre-war Sports Cars.

It's James Potter's 1930 Riley Brooklands with a tuned version of the Riley Nine's 1,087cc 4-cylinder inline engine. The Riley Nine was designed by two of the Riley brothers, Percy and Stanley, and the Brooklands was the work of John G Parry Thomas and Reid Railton who shortened the chassis by some 15 inches and fitted an undershield the full length of the car. The engine had high compression pistons, special camshafts and 2 carburettors, increasing its output to 50bhp.

Friday's Ferrari

This car took part in the HGPCA Sports Car Race at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992.

It's described in the programme of the event as a 1958 Ferrari 250TR, but has had a chequered history, being built in 1956 as a Ferrari 290 MM with chassis #0606 and a 3,491cc V12 engine. As a Scuderia Ferrari car it won the 1956 Swedish Grand Prix in the hands of Maurice Trintignant and Phil Hill, then in the 1957 season was raced by the Ecurie Nationale Belge. At the end of the season it returned to the Ferrari factory and was loaned out during 1958, then in 1959 it was converted to Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa specifications with a 2,953cc V12 engine. It was sold as a Ferrari 250 TR to Brazilian Jean Luis Lacerda Soares who raced the car in 1960, but in 1962 Fernando Moriera borrowed it to race at Interlagos and the front half of the car was totally wrecked in an accident during the race that killed the driver. The less damaged rear part of the car was used to create an Corvette V8 engined special which was used through the 1960s after which the engine was removed and the rest of the car was untouched until the mid 1980s when it was brought to the UK. The new owner, Paolo Sebastiani was under the impression that he had the remains of a Testa Rossa #0726 and had the remains reconstructed as that car, which is how it appeared at this Silverstone race where it was driven by Paolo Sebastiani.. The was sold in the 1990s to a John Godfrey who did some detailed research and found that the remains were of the 290MM, #0606, and when John Godfrey later died the current owner bought the car from his estate and commissioned Neil Twyman to return it to the same specification it was when it last left the Ferrari factory in 1959.

1967 Lotus Elan

I took this photograph at the Northern Classic Car Show at the G-Mex Centre, Manchester in August 1991.

It's a 1967 Lotus Elan and was on the stand of 'Cars of Character', but the brochure of the event gives no information about the car, nor about 'Cars of Character'. The Lotus Elan was introduced in 1962 with a 4-cylinder inline Lotus Twin-Cam engine based on the 1,498cc Ford Kent engine, but after only 22 cars were built the engine size was increased to 1,558cc and the car redesignated the Lotus Elan 1600. At this Northern Classic Car Show the fibreglass body is raised up to show the steel backbone chassis which was likened to a double ended tuning fork.

 

1950 Comet MkI F3

This was one of the competitors in the F3 500s race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Formula Vintage meeting at Oulton Park in May 2019.

It's Duncan Rabagliati in his 1950 Comet MkI at Britten's chicane during the morning practice session. The Comet MkI was built by Brian Heyward and his father to replace an aged Cooper MkIV and it originally had a JAP engine, later replaced with a Norton unit. There's a 500 Owners Association site that has lots of details about the 500cc Formula 3 years, including details of the many different marques that were created for the Formula.

Here's the Comet at Druids Corner during the race.

1972 Abarth-Osella PA1

This car competed in the Italian Historic Car Cup race at the Silverstone Classic meeting in July 2010.

According to the programme of the event it's a 1972 Abarth-Osella PA1, driven in the race by Martin Stretton and Frank Sytner. When Abarth was taken over by Fiat in 1971 Osella ran the Abarth team's competition department and in 1972 competed in the European Sports Racing Championship with the Abarth SE021. The PA1 was their 1973 car, introduced at the end of 1972, and was a development of the SE021, winning two of the eight races in the 1973 Championship. The programme of this Silverstone meeting says that the car has a 2,991cc engine.

1956 Maserati 250F

The featured marque at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005 was Maserati with particular emphasis on the 250F and twelve of these cars are listed in the Celebration Maserati Invitation Race with a further four being shown as static display or track demonstration cars. This is one of the cars that took part in that race photographed inside a marquee in the paddock where various of the Maseratis were displayed at times during the meeting.

It's Stefan Rettenmaier's 1956 Maserati 250F, chassis 2520, and was driven for the Maserati team by José Froilán Gonzales in the Argentine Grand Prix in January of 1956 and by Pablo Gulle in the Buenos Aires City Grand Prix two weeks later. It was then sold to Australian Stan Jones (father of later World Drivers' Champion Alan Jones) who raced the car 'down under' with considerable success during the rest of the 1950s. In 1963 it was brought to the UK by Colin Crabbe and it passed through various other hands before spending some time in the private collection of Giulio Dubbini in Padova until it was acquired by Stefan Rettenmaier. There are little notes about each of the Maserati 250Fs in the programme of the event, and the one for this car reads as follows:

2520

Factory car for Argentina and raced by Froilán Gonzales before deal with Stan Jones in Australia. Colin Crabbe brought it to the UK in 1963. Break from Historic racing life in the Guido Dubbini collection, and now in Germany with Stefan Rettenmaier.

1966 Gilbern GT

I photographed this car in one of the car parks at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2018.

It's a 1966 Gilbern GT with a 1,798cc MGB engine and is chassis #B100196. The Gilbern company was formed in 1959 by Welshman Giles Smith, who was a butcher by trade, and German engineer Bernard Friese, using the 'Gil' of 'Giles' and the 'Bern' of 'Bernard' to form the company's name. The GT was the first of four models they produced (the others being the Genie, the Invader MkI & II and the Invader MkIII), firstly with a BMC 'A' Series engine, and later with MGA and MGB units. Production of the Gilbern ended in 1973 and what was the only Welsh motor company closed down in 1974 - the Gilbern badge had featured the Welsh Dragon. There's a Gilbern Owners Club for enthusiasts and owners of the car.

Bugattis

These two cars took part in the Lancashire Automobile Club's annual Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in May 1992, and are pictured in the Exchange Station car park in Manchester before the start of the Run.

Unlike in the early days of the run in the 1960s when the programme of the Run had detailed notes of most of the cars taking part, by 1992, sadly, the programme just listed the cars and gave the names of the owners. On the left, car number 67 is a 1926 Bugatti T37 entered by Barry H Parkinson of Ribchester, Blackburn. The DVLA record shows that it has a 1,496cc engine, whilst the Bugatti Trust gives us general information about the Type 37, and bugattibuilder.com tells us that it is chassis 37190. On the right, car number 68 is a 1927 Bugatti T40 entered by Ann Morris of Aikton, Wigton, the DVLA shows the engine capacity as 1,496cc, and the Bugatti Trust again gives us general information about the Type 40. The bugattibuilder.com site tells us that it is chassis number 40323.

Friday's Ferrari

Ferrari uses the Corse Clienti Ferrari Racing Days meetings at various circuits to allow a group of specially selected customers to test limited edition cars developed exclusively for the track and to provide feedback on the performance of the cars to Corse Clienti engineers, thus helping Ferrari to develop its cars for the future. The Ferrari Racing Days meeting at Silverstone in September 2017 included a series of test sessions involving the Ferrari FXX-K, the 'K' referring to the KERS kinetic energy recovery system with which the car is equipped. Here's one of the cars pictured at Club Corner during one of the sessions.

This is Russian driver Valentin Bukhtoyarov in his Ferrari FXX-K, which is based on the LaFerrari. The car has a 6,262cc V12 engine that develops 848 hp, to which the 140kW electric motor adds 188 hp.

1954 LECo Sport

This car competed in the Jack Fairman Cup race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2018.

It's the 1954 LECo Sports of Alex Quattlebaum and has a 1,480cc MG engine. It's the second of only three cars built by the Liss Engineering Company (hence the name LECo) and was commissioned by Richard Ashby and his wife Margaret. They had gone to a meeting at Goodwood in 1953 and comments they made about the standard of driving were overheard by another spectator who said if they thought they could do better they should give it a go. The other spectator was apparently Raymond Mays. From 1954 they competed with the car in the south of England, including Goodwood, Crystal Palace and the Brighton Speed Trials, and Richard Ashby is known to have won at least one event at Goodwood.

Here's Alex Quattlebaum on the exit from Lodge Corner during the race.

MV Agusta

One of the races at the Silverstone Historic Festival meeting in August 2001 was the Mike Hailwood Memorial Trophy Race and I took this photograph where all the motorcycles that took part in that race were gathered in the paddock.

It's an MV Agusta - from the National Motorcycle Museum according to the sticker at the top of the number '1'. Mike Hailwood rode for the MV Agusta Racing Team from the last couple of races in the 1961 season up to the end of the 1965 season, winning the 500cc Championship in 1962, 1963, 1964 and 1965.

1957 Lotus 12

I took this photograph at the Donington Park Museum in October 1989.

It's a 1957 Lotus 12, and was Colin Chapman's first single-seat car, which was used in both Formula 2 and Formula 1 races. It was a largely unsuccessful car, although in the 1958 Belgian Grand Prix Cliff Allison, who finished in fourth place in a Lotus 12, might have won the race had it been one lap longer. The winner was Tony Brooks in a Vanwall, but his gearbox seized as he crossed the line. Mike Hawthorn was second in a Ferrari, but his engine failed as he came out of La Source corner and he coasted across the line. In third place was Stuart Lewis-Evans in another Vanwall, but his suspension collapsed on the way into La Source and he managed to crawl across the line, so Cliff Allison finished fourth, over 4 minutes behind the winner. The book 'Great Racing Cars of the Donington Collection' says this about the car:

The Mark 12

Lotus’ first single-seater

The Lotus story is virtually a rags to riches tale, revolving around Colin Chapman, a gifted engineer and dynamic businessman who built his first Austin 7-based trials special in 1948. He christened it ‘Lotus’ – because the Lotus blossom is said to induce drowsiness, and all-night work on the car proved a fair substitute Subsequent Austin 7-based 750 Formula cars were raced successfully by Chapman himself and by friends, and when customers were attracted so Lotus Engineering was founded. From this simple beginning grew an extensive, competition-based, motor manufacturing company, building, selling and racing a continuous line of very successful and sophisticated sports cars with a variety of engines. Very light weight and advanced suspension systems typified Chapman’s designs and in 1956-7 he produced his first single-seater racing car for the new 1½-litre Formula 2. This was the Lotus 12, powered by a Coventry-Climax engine, and although successful it was over-shadowed by the more robust Coopers. Chapman fitted larger and larger Climax engines, starting Formula 1 racing with 2.2-litre variants of the Lotus 12. Best placing was Cliff Allison’s fourth place in the 1958 Belgian GP, before the Vanwall-like Lotus 16 was introduced. Seven of the original Mark 12s were built, this one in the Collection being a replica.

1969 Piper GTT

This was one of the entrants in the Cheshire Concours d'Esprit at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2017.

It's a 1969 Piper GTT, about which a note in the programme of the event says:

'Designed for the track, this futuristic lightweight aerodynamic sports car was one of the lowest profile road cars ever built. Piper entered for Le Mans in 1969 and the concours entry raced at UK circuits through the 1970s and 1980s, one time under Guernsey Airlines sponsorship livery.'

This is an information sheet in the windscreen of the car, which the DVLA record says has a 1,688cc engine - presumably a bored out version of the 1,599cc Ford Kent engine.

This is the car during a Parade Lap by the Concours d'Esprit entrants on the Sunday of the 3-day meeting.

1948 Leyland Titan PD2/1

This vehicle took part in the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally in Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1996.

It's a 1948 Leyland Titan PD2/1, formerly operated by the North Western Road Car Company which was based in Stockport. It was converted to driver training in 1965 and absorbed into SELNEC (South East Lancashire and North East Cheshire) in 1972 with the reorganisation of bus services in Greater Manchester, and was sold into preservation two years later. A note in the programme of this event reads as follows:

'Leyland Titan PD2/1, Leyland L27/26R, 1948                                                                CDB 224

North Western 224

Entered by       A. Gaskell, Irlams o' th' Height, Salford

This lowbridge vehicle ended its days in the training fleet and has subsequently undergone extensive restoration to everything except the steering and the clutch, as anyone wh has tried to manoeuvre the vehicle within the confined spaces of the Museum will testify!'