1955 Connaught B-Type

This car competed in the Allcomers Scratch Race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Richard Seaman Trophies Meeting at Oulton Park in June 1972.

It's the 1955 Connaught B Type of Alan McKechnie and was driven in the race by Tony Mitchell. The Connaught B Type was made famous by Tony Brooks' win in the 1955 Syracuse Grand Prix where the main opposition were the five cars of the Maserati works team, since when the B Type has been known as the Connaught Syracuse. It has a 4-cylinder inline 2,470cc Alta engine and seven of the cars were produced, Alan McKechnie's car, chassis B7 was owned by Bernie Ecclestone after the Connaught team folded and was raced in 1958 by Roy Salvadori, Archie Scott Brown and Jack Fairman. In later years it was on long-term display in the Donington Park Museum.