1925 Bugatti Type 13

This car competed in what was labelled as a 'Ten Lap Scratch Race in Memory of Sir Henry Seagrave for Vintage Racing Cars which includes the Williams Monaco and allied Trophies' at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in August 1996.

It's the 1925 Bugatti Type 13 of David Marsh which has a 16-valve 4-cylinder inline 1,496cc engine. Five examples of the Type 13 were produced before the First World War and when the war was over Ettore Bugatti prepared the cars for racing. The cars took the first four places in the 1921 Brescia Grand Prix and the Type 13 subsequently became known as the Brescia Bugatti. There was a great demand for the car and its derivations and 2000 were built before production ended in about 1926. After giving details of the other Bugattis in the race the programme of the event says this about David Marsh's car:

'The only 4 cylinder Bugatti amongst all these 8 cylinders is the 1925 1.5 litre Brescia model of David Marsh, the VSCC President.'

The car was eligible for the Williams Monaco Trophy and the programme also says this about that Trophy:

'In 1929, the Anglo-French driver William Grover, who drove under the name of "Williams", won the first Monaco Grand Prix driving a Type 35B Bugatti, and after the last war his wife presented the actual Trophy to the Bugatti Owners' Club, which became the "Williams" Monaco Trophy and from 1976 it has been competed for at VSCC meetings mainly between Type 35B and Type 51 Bugattis and Monza Alfa Romeos, all 2-seater Grand Prix cars.'