I took these photographs at the
Vintage Sports Car Club’s meeting at Oulton Park in May 2019.
It's a 1950 Bristol 400, one
of 487 cars built between 1947 and 1950. After the Second World War the Bristol
Aeroplane Company set up a car division, which later became Bristol Cars, and
this was the first car they produced. AFN Ltd had reached an agreement with BMW
in 1934 to import their cars, and to build and market them in the UK as Frazer
Nash BMWs, and Bristol acquired a licence from Frazer Nash to base their car on
the box-section frame of the BMW 326 and the engine of the BMW 328. The
Bristol's engine was a slightly modified version of the 328's 6-cylinder inline
1,971cc unit.
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