1912 Minerva

This is one of the cars that took part in the Lancashire Automobile Club's annual Monachester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in June 1983 and I took this photograph in Manchester before the start of the Run.

It's a Belgian car, a 1912 Minerva, and although I no longer have the programme of the event it took part in the run in 1987 when the program said this about the car:

1912 Minerva

Reg: HS 457 4 cylinder 38 hp

(Nigel Bradshaw, Lytham)

Minervas were beefy Belgian racers of which

this blue brute is a superb specimen. They

used Knight sleeve valve engines of more than

2000 cc, and in the 1914 TT came second, third

and fifth.