1966 Riley Kestrel 1100

This is one of the cars that were displayed at the Footman James Classic Car Show Manchester at EventCity in September 2018.

It's a 1966 Riley Kestrel 1100, the ADO16 model originally launched by BMC in 1962 as the Morris 1100, which was later joined by the Austin, MG, Morris, Riley, Vanden Plas and Wolseley 1100s - the Riley Kestrel being the only one that to be given a name. It has a 4-cylinder inline transversely mounted 1,098cc engine driving the front wheels.

1960 Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ

This was one of the competitors in the HSCC Historic Road Sports Championship race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2008.

It's the 1960 Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ (or Sprint Zagato) of James Wiseman which was one of 217 produced between 1959 and 1962 and has a 4-cylinder inline 1,290cc engine.

Friday's Ferrari

This car took part in the Maserati UK Race for Pre-1961 Grand Prix Cars at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1999.

It's the 1952 Ferrari 625 of David Vine, a car that was originally a Formula Two Ferrari 500 with a 4-cylinder inline 1,984cc engine designed by Aurelio Lampredi, and competed in World Championship races in 1952 and 1953 when they were run to Formula 2 regulations. It was an Ecurie Francorchamps car, chassis 0208F, and after being in an accident at the end of 1953 it was rebuilt as a 625 with a lengthened chassis and a 2,498cc version of the Lampredi engine to contest the 2½ litre Formula One starting in 1954. At the same time it was given a new chassis number, 0540. In 1955 it was acquired by Alfonso de Portago who competed in a couple of non-World Championship Grands Prix then was injured in a crash during practice for the International Trophy Race at Silverstone and then sold the car. It then passed through various hands before ending up with David Vine in 1998.

Although the car has Maurice Trintignant's name on the side it is not the Ferrari 625 with which he won the 1955 Monaco Grand Prix.

1902 James and Browne Tonneau

This was one of the cars that took part in the Lancashire Automobile Club's Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in June 1973.

It's the 1902 James and Browne Tonneau of the City and Guilds Motor Club and was a regular competitor in the early years of this run. The James and Browne cars were produced between 1896 and 1910 and only two cars are known to have survived. The programme of the event had this information about the car:

14 Professor H. Ford, City & Guilds College, London, S.W.7.

(Driver Mr. P Wilkins).

1902 James and Browne Tonneau, 2,460 c.c.

Named "Boanerges" after the Old Testament sons of thunder, the rare James and Browne four-seater is the mascot of the City & Guilds Motor Club. The London-built car with its twin-cylinder 9 h.p. engine is painted in the livery colours of the City of London and has taken part in the Lord Mayor's Show on several occasions.

1958 Lotus Eleven Le Mans

I took this photograph in the paddock at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2005.

It's a 1958 Lotus Eleven Le Mans, chassis 344, which was driven in the 90 minute Gentlemen Drivers GT and Sports Endurance Race by Guy Peeters and Vincent Decoux and has a 1,498cc engine. The Lotus Eleven was primarily designed to compete in the 1,100cc class of racing, but competed with a variety of engines ranging from 750cc to 1,500cc. The Lotus Eleven Le Mans differed from the standard Lotus Eleven in that it had a wider chassis frame in order to provide Le Mans regulation-width seats, and cockpit and footwell minimum dimensions, but the overall width of the bodywork was no different to the standard car.

2001 Jaguar R2

This is one of the cars I photographed at the Donington Park Museum in September 2014.

Ford had taken over the Stewart Racing Team after the 1999 season and the resulting cars from 2000 to 2004  were badged as Jaguars, none of which were particularly successful. The team was taken over by the Red Bull Racing Team in 2005. This car is the 2001 Jaguar R2 which was powered by a 2,998cc V10 Cosworth CR-3 engine. It was driven for the whole of that season by Eddie Irvine with Luciano Burti driving the second car in the first four races and Pedro de la Rosa taking over that car for the remainder of the season. Eddie Irvine posted the best result for the team with a third place in the Monaco Grand Prix.

1958 Lister Monza Jaguar

This car competed in the Magneti Marelli UK Race for Pre-1961 Grand Prix and Cars at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998.

It's the 1958 Lister Monza Jaguar of Ric Weiland with a 6-cylinder inline 3,781cc Jaguar engine that was built for Ecurie Ecosse to run in the Race of Two Worlds at Monza. The Race of Two Worlds was conceived as an annual exhibition event to be run on the banked oval at Monza and contested by two teams of cars from the USA (USAC cars as in the Indianapolis 500 race) and from Europe (F1 World Championship cars). Because of safety concerns and costs (and a lack of enthusiasm amongst the European F1 teams) the event only lasted for two years, 1957 and 1958, being won by the American cars on both occasions. Ecurie Ecosse entered a team of three Jaguar D-types in the 1957 race, and in 1958 two Jaguar D-types and this single seat Lister Jaguar built especially for the race and consequently known as the Lister Jaguar Monzanapolis. The aluminium body of the car was unpainted for the race, but at some time since then was painted this Ecurie Ecosse blue. It has more recently been returned to the original unpainted finish.

1933 Alfa Romeo 8C 2600 Monza

This car was driven by Hubert Fabri in two races at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2005.

It's a 1933 Alfa Romeo 8C 2600 Monza and has an 8-cylinder inline  2,557 cc engine. It's registered for road use with the registration number is FYE 7 and is chassis  number 2211130,  which was originally owned and raced by the Hon. Brian Lewis who later became Lord Essendon, and for a long time it was owned by the Hon. Patrick Lindsay.

1933 Talbot 105

I took this photograph at a classic car show organised by car dealers Gordon Ford of Stockport in July 1987.

There was no list of the vehicles taking part in the event, but it's a 1933 Talbot 105, which started life as a Talbot 75 saloon then was given an Alpine replica body and later a 105 engine. The Talbot Owners Club has this information about it.

Friday's Ferrari

This was one of the many Ferraris that I photographed at the Ferrari Racing Days meeting at Silverstone in September 2017.

It's a 1987 Ferrari 328 GTB and has the F105CB 3,186cc 32 valve V8 engine with twin overhead camshafts per bank. The Ferrari 328 was produced between 1985 and 1989, a total of 7,412 cars - 1,344 of the GTB and 6,068 of the GTS. It replaced the 308 model and was superseded by the Ferrari 348.

1964 Milano GT Mk1

I took this photograph at the Foulstons chicane during the Saturday practice for the HSCC Historic Road Sports Championship Race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2004.

It's Mike Eagles in his 1964 Milano Mk1 GT which is an Australian built car with a 6-cylinder inline 2,998cc Holden engine. Only about 30 of these cars were built and behind Mike Eagles is the 1962 Milano of Justin Murphy.

1939 KDF Volkswagen Kübelwagen

I took this photograph at the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally at Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1990.

I made a note at the time that it was a 1939 Kübelwagen, but the DVLA record shows it as being manufactured in 1968 and has given it a 'G' registration which indicates cars registered between August 1968 and July 1969. Presumably the DVLA didn't make much of an effort to find  out the actual date that it was made - or it could just be a replica. The Kübelwagen was the German equivalent of the US Willys MB jeep and over 50,000 had been produced by 1945.

1968 Lola T70 Mk 3B Spyder

This car competed in the World Sports Cars Masters race at the Silverstone Classic meeting in July 2010.

It's the 1968 Lola T70 Mk3B Spyder of Michael Fitzgerald and has a 5 litre Chevrolet engine. It may be chassis SL75/125. 

1976 McLaren M26

This is a photograph I took in the paddock at Oulton Park at the Gold Cup meeting in August 2003.

The programme of the event shows it as a 1976 McLaren M23 to be driven by Frank Lyons in the Force Classic Grand Prix Cars race, but it looks more like a McLaren M26, one of which at that time was also owned by Frank Lyons. James Hunt won the World Drivers' Championship in 1976 in a McLaren M23, but his team mate Jochen Mass drove a McLaren M26 that year, finishing in ninth place in the Championship with his best results being a couple of third places.

Singer Owners Club

I took this photograph of cars belonging to members of the Singer Owners Club at the Northern Classic Car Show at Belle Vue, Manchester in September 1984.

I didn't make a note of the individual cars at the time, but I've been able to identify the first four. On the left is a 1934 Singer 1½ litre Four Seater Sports Tourer, registration number US 5285 and next to that is a 1½ litre 1934 Singer Le Mans, BGN 1. The third car is a 1937 1 litre Singer 9, CTB 357 and then a 1936 1 litre Singer Le Mans, APW 971.

2000 Lotus 190 Sport Elise

This is a photograph I took in the paddock at Oulton Park at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting in May 2002.

It's the 2000 Lotus 190 Sport Elise of Alistair Mackinnon which competed in the Lotus Road Sport Series race. The car has a 4-cylinder inline 1,796cc Rover engine. The number of the car behind it isn't visible, but it seems to be either the 1998 Lotus Exige of Gavan Kershaw or the similar car of Neil Glover. In the background is the silver 1998 Lotus Elise of John Vickery. 

Friday's Ferrari

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

According to the programme of the event car number 1 is Engelbert Stieger's 1963 Ferrari 250 GTO, which was due to be driven in the race by Christoph Stieger, but the number 1 above is Engelbert Stieger's 3 litre 1972 Ferrari 312P, chassis #0888. The 312P was introduced in 1971 and has a 2,991cc flat-12 engine, and it is sometimes referred to as a 312PB to differentiate it from the 1969 312P which had a 2,990cc V12 engine - the 'B' being a reference to the boxer engine of the later car.

1907 Sheffield Tram 264

In August 1996 when returning home from a holiday in Scotland we paid a visit to the Beamish Open Air Museum in County Durham and this is one of the photographs I took there.

This tramcar began service for Sheffield Corporation Tramways in 1907 and this is what Beamish Transport Online says about it:

264 is one of 15 double deck balcony cars delivered in 1907 to Sheffield Corporation Tramways by the United Electric Car Company of Preston.  The body has wooden seats for 54 passengers, and is mounted on a 4-wheel Peckham P22 truck with two Metrovick 102DR 60hp motors operated by BTH B510 controllers.  The braking systems comprise a handbrake acting on all wheels, an electric brake for emergency use and a hand-wheel operated track brake.

1914 Vinot Et Deguingand

I took this photograph during the Lancashire Automobile Club's  Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in June 1966 at the roundabout that at one time stood at the junction of the A6 and Cross Lane in Pendleton.

It's the 1914 Vinot et Deguingand of D G Dixon and the programme of the event had this note about the car:

 

30. Mr. D.G. Dixon, St. Helens

1914 Vinot Et Deguingand 4-seater tourer 1690c.c.

Only two other examples of this make are known in this country. The body was built in London, so the vehicle was probably imported from France as a chassis only. It has a very good performance for its comparatively small engine, and in 10 years has only failed once due to magneto trouble.

1955 Jaguar D-Type

I took this photograph at Lodge Corner during the Scratch Race for 1950's Sports/Racing Cars at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at a wet Oulton Park in August 1996.

It's Ian Donaldson in Andrew Pisker's 1955 Jaguar D-Type with the later 3,781cc version of the 6-cylinder inline Jaguar XK engine. The car is chassis XKD544 and has a very interesting history detailed in the coventryracers website.

Silverstone July 1994

I took this photograph during the Chopard HGPCA 100 Mile Grand Prix Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1994.

Leading this group is the 1955 Cooper Bobtail of Katharina Schmidt, which is the 2 litre Cooper T40 Bristol that Jack Brabham drove in his first World Championship Formula 1 race in 1955. Behind that is the 1952 Connaught A-Type of Spike Milligan, chassis A7, and bringing up the rear is the 1953 Cooper Bristol T23 of Graham Burrows.

1934 Maserati 8CM

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

It's the 1934 Maserati 8CM, chassis 3018, originally owned by Tazio Nuvolari, and this is the note about the car in the book 'Great Racing Cars of the Donington Collection':

'In 1933, while the new Alfa Romeo Monoposti were languishing in enforced inactivity, the Scuderia Ferrari persevered with their old Monza models, fitted with more powerful 2.6 litre engines. This added urge proved too much for the fragile transmissions, which regularly failed and robbed thr Scuderia drivers of several good placings.  Tazio Nuvolari – the legendary Italian ace – suffered more than most. The Press began to call him a car-breaker. He and some of his team-mates broke with Ferrari and moved down the Via Emilia to buy competitive cars from the Maserati brothers in Bologna. These were the 2991cc supercharged eight-cylinder 8CMs, and the ex-Alfa Romeo aces quickly turned them into race winners. Alfieri Maserati had begun competitions in the 1920s, and in 1926 he modified an eight-cylinder Diatto which became the first Maserati racing car when Diatto lost interest in racing and dispensed with Alfieri’s services. He and his brothers Bindo, Ernesto and Ettore formed their own company to build competition cars and quickly proved successful, selling many cars to private entrants. Early in 1933 their 8CM engine was introduced, installed in originally 2.8 litre ‘two-seater’ chassis from the previous year. Three of these cars were produced before Maserati introduced their first Monoposto with incredibly slim chassis and body, only 62 centimetres wide. With the advent of the 750kg Formula in 1934, the later 8CMs were widened to meet the 85-centimetre minimum width rule, although this was cleverly achieved in the chassis and lower body sides only, leaving the upper part of the shell as slim and wind-cheating as before. In its original form the 8CM chassis was whippy and made the lightweight 210bhp car a ferocious thing to drive. Its braking was sophisticated, however, for the brothers had revived hydraulic operation for all four brakes – twelve years after their value had been proved by Duesenberg in winning the 1921 French Grand Prix. Burly opera-singing driver Giuseppe Campari gave the 8CM engine its first victory in the French Grand Prix, and then Nuvolari won the Belgian event in his brand-new privately-owned single-seater. The Mantuan won again at Montenero and Nice, was second in the Italian GP and led in Spain before his car failed him. This brilliant season was marred by the deaths of fellow Maseratistis Campari and Borzacchini in the Monza GP, but Nuvolari continued racing his slim-bodied car – number 3007 – into 1934. Early in the new season he wrecked this car in the Bordino Cup race at Alessandria, somersaulting it into a stout tree. A young newcomer named Carla Pedrazzini was killed in his unmanageable 8CM in this same event, but the indomitable Nuvolari was soon recovered and racing again. His new wide-chassis car – number 3018 – was second to Fagioli’s Mercedes in the Coppa Acerbo at Pescara, and then the 8CM was replaced by a new Tipo 34 six-cylinder 3.3 litre model for the Italian GP. About twenty-three Maserati 8CMs were built in this period, nineteen of them single-seaters, and one – number 3003 – being based on a Bugatti chassis for Count Premoli, to form the PBM, or Premoli-Bugatti-Maserati. They were exceptionally popular among private owners, particularly since Alfa Romeo would not release their P3s at the time. Earl Howe and Philippe Étancelin ran single-seater cars with some success, while the American-born Cambridge undergraduate Whitney Straight ordered a three-car team. He had them modified by Thomson & Taylor at Brooklands, fitted with Wilson pre-selector gearboxes and stiffened chassis and even designed his own grille shape. These cars were raced widely and successfully by the Straight team and, in later years, by private owners. The immaculate and very original 8CM in the Donnington Collection is 3018, Nuvolari’s personal 1934 car; it is possible that it was built using some of the parts salvaged from his Alessandra wreck. In present form it is fitted with a Wilson pre-selector gearbox, which Nuvolari disliked and used only occasionally. The car was in the Collezione Giorgio Franchetti for many years and is one of the best-preserved of all the great racing cars of the 1930s.'

Jaguar XKSS

This is a photograph I took at the Aston Martin Owners Club's Autumn Historic Car Races meeting at Oulton Park in September 1993.

It's a Jaguar XKSS, though whether it's an original one or a replica I don't know. The original XKSS cars were produced in 1957 when Jaguar converted 25 unsold D-Types into road cars, although 9 of these cars were destroyed in a fire at the Browns Lane factory before they left the production line. In 2016 Jaguar announced a new production run of 9 cars to replace the ones destroyed in the fire.

Friday's Ferrari

This was one of the cars on view at the Ferrari Racing Days meeting at Silverstone in September 2017.

It's a 1996 Ferrari F355 Berlinetta, one of 4,871 cars produced between 1994 and 1999. It has a 3,496cc V8 engine with twin overhead camshafts on each bank of cylinders and 5 valves per cylinder. The F355 replaced the Ferrari 348 and was itself replaced by the Ferrari 360. From 1997 the F355 became the first-ever road car to have the paddle operated F1 style gearbox transmission system.

1932 Leyland Cub

I took this photograph at the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally at Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1988.

It's a 1932 Leyland Cub and has a 6-cylinder 4,086cc petrol engine. A note in the programme of the event reads as follows:

 

'BV 1673 Leyland Cub, 1932. Entered by H. Booth, Barnsley, S. Yorks. Originally new to Blackburn Corporation Transport Department, this vehicle was scrapped in 1962 and then preserved in 1965. Following three years rallying the vehicle went into store to emerge in 1987.'

 

I believe that this vehicle is now at the Beamish Museum.

1929/36 Riley Special

I took this photograph at Lodge Corner during a Four Lap Scratch Race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 1993.

I didn't make a note of which car it was at the time, as usual relying on identifying it later from the programme of the event. It's obviously a Riley Special, but there were five of these in the race and you can't make out the car number in this photo. It looks like the number is on the scuttle and tail of the car though and the only car which matches the bits of number you can see is 47 which was the 1929/36 Riley Special of F C Roberts which was driven in the race by D M Robinson. That would seem to be a 1929 Riley Brooklands with the 4-cylinder inline 1,496cc engine from a 1936 Riley 12/4.

 

1954 Maserati 250F

I took this photograph at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992.

It's the ex-Gilby Engineering Company's 1954 Maserati 250F, with the replacement chassis #2507/2 given to the car after an accident at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in 1954 and it has the 6-cylinder inline 2,491cc Maserati engine. The car was owned by Robin Lodge and was driven by him in the Corporate Jets Historic Grand Prix Car Race.

1960 Aston Martin DB4

This car took part in the MG Car Club Chapman Warren Classic Road Sports Championship Race and the Post-War Aston Martins Race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's Autumn Historic Car Races meeting at Oulton Park in September 1992.

It's the 1960 Aston Martin DB4 of Simon Draper, one of 1,185 that were produced between 1958 and 1963, together with 19 of the DB4GT Zagato models. The body of the DB4 was designed by Carrozzerie Touring of Milan and it had the 6-cylinder inline 3,670cc engine created by Tadek Marek, although according to the programme of the event Simon Draper's car has a 4.2 litre engine.

1953 Jaguar C-Type

I took this photograph at the Northern Classic Car Show at Belle Vue, Manchester in September 1983.

It's a 1953 Jaguar C-Type with the 6-cylinder inline 3,442cc Jaguar XK engine. It is chassis XKC 053 and was a works team car in 1953 when it finished in second place in the Le Mans 24 Hour race driven by Stirling Moss and Peter Walker, the race being won by another Jaguar C-Type driven by Tony Rolt and Duncan Hamilton. Stirling Moss and Peter Walker took the car to third place in that year's RAC Tourist Trophy race while Peter Whitehead and Ian Stewart finished in third place in the Goodwood 9 Hour race with the car. At the end of that season XKC 053 was sold to the Ecurie Ecosse team.

1959 Cooper Monaco

This is a photograph that I took at the Silverstone Historic Festival meeting in August 2001.

It's the 1959 Cooper T49 Monaco of Mark Clubb and has a 4-cylinder inline 1,990cc Coventry Climax engine. The name 'Monaco' was given to the car to mark Maurice Trintignant's win in the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix in a Cooper Climax T45. It was the successor to the smaller centre-seat Cooper T39 'Bobtail' that the company had produced since 1954. This car is chassis CM/6/59, the sixth of eight factory built cars and was sold to a customer in the USA. In 1979 the car was offered for sale and was bought by Stirling Moss and the following year he sold it as a restoration project to David Watson. David Watson commissioned Hall and Fowler to carry out the restoration and when it was finished he sold it to a US collector who kept the car until 1999 when it was acquired by Mark Clubb who kept the car until 2014.