1949 AEC Regent III

This is a photograph that I took in Heaton Park, Manchester at the Greater Manchester Transport Society’s Trans Lancs Historic vehicle Rally in September 1988.

It’s not listed in the programme of the event, but it’s a former London Transport 1949 AEC Regent III, Fleet number RT1574.

1955 Jaguar D-Type

This is a photograph that I took just outside the paddock at the Vintage Sports Car Club’s Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 1984.

It’s a 1955 Jaguar D-Type and the registration number 774 RW seems to indicate that it is  XKD505, the car with which Mike Hawthorn and Ivor Bueb won the 1955 Le Mans 24 Hour Race.

Pre-1952 Grand Prix Cars at Silverstone

This is a photograph that I took at Luffield Corner during the Pre-1952 Grand Prix Cars Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998.

From the left the cars are the 1932 Alfa Romeo Monza of Terry Cohn, the 1939 Maserati 4CL of Norbert Schmitz-Koep and Tony Bianchi’s 1948 Talbot Lago T26C.

Friday's Ferrari

The SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005 included 'A Demonstration of Italian Racing Cars' which consisted of some laps of the track by a variety of Maseratis, Ferraris and a Lancia D50. This is one of the Ferraris that took part in the demonstration.

It's Nick Mason's 1978 Ferrari 312 T3, chassis number 034 and the car Gilles Villeneuve drove for most of the 1978 racing season.

1928/31 Austin 7

This car competed in a handicap race at the Vintage Sports Car Club’s Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 1981.

It’s a 1928/31 Austin 7 and the only information about it in the programme of the event is that it was entered by D.K.Ulph and had a 750cc supercharged engine.

2000 Audi R8

In May 2001 Audi brought an Auto Union C-Type and a D-Type to the VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Donington Park, together with several other cars and motorcycles. This was one of the other cars which they brought, pictured  on the stretch between the Old Hairpin and McLean's Corner during a demonstration run that day.

It’s the 2000 Audi R8, developed from the previous year's R8R and powered by the same 3.6 litre V8 engine. The R8 competed in the Le Mans 24 Hour race six times, from 2000 to 2005, winning on 5 occasions (finishing in the first three places in 2000) and being beaten only in 2003 - by the Bentley Speed 8.

1935 Frazer Nash

This car took part in a ‘Handicap Race for Frazer Nash and GN Cars’ at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 1973.

It’s the 1935 Frazer Nash of B.Hopkins, and the only information about it in the programme of the event is that it had a 1,498cc engine, presumably the 4-cylinder inline Meadows unit.

Fifty years of the Formula One World Championship at Silverstone in July 2000

The Coys International Historical Festival meeting of July 2000 marked 50 years of the Formula 1 World Championship for Drivers with a display of cars covering that period, and this is a photograph that I took inside one of the marquees where the cars were displayed.

From the far end the cars here are:

 

1995 Benetton B195

1997 Stewart SF01

2000 Jaguar R1

2000 Jordan EJ10

1998 McLaren MP4/13

And a little bit of the 1950 Alfa Romeo 158

1907 Niclausse Park Phaeton

This is a photograph that I took at the Lancashire Automobile Club’s Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in June 1969.

It’s a 1907 Niclausse Park Phaeton and the programme of the event had the following note about the vehicle:

 

22.     Mr. Peter Black, Keighley, Yorkshire.

            1907 Niclausse Park Phaeton. 17½ h.p.

Apart from being a great rarity in the catalogue of Edwardian cars – there are only two other Niclausse models still in existence and both these in Spain – the Park Phaeton has a distinction linked with the world of fashion. The body was built specially for the haute couture houses so that the four-seater car might be driven on the boulevards of Paris allowing the Parisienne of the day to display her fashions to the best advantage.

1957 Maserati 250F

This is a photograph that I took in the paddock at the Vintage Sports Car Club’s Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 1972.

It’s Neil Corner’s 1957 Maserati 250F which has a 6-cylinder inline 2,493cc engine. The car is chassis #2528 and was campaigned mainly by Jean Behra in the 1957 season, but also driven that year by Juan Fangio and Harry Schell. It has been owned and raced by the Corner family, Neil and his son Nigel, since 1972.

Ferrari 360 Spider

This is a photograph that I took at the Ferrari Racing Days meeting at Silverstone in September 2017.

It's a Ferrari 360 Spider, a model that was produced between 1999 and 2005 and has a 3,586cc V8 Ferrari F131 engine.

1950 Sheffield Tram 513

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.

It's a 1950 Sheffield tram, number 513, built by Roberts of Wakefield, and it remained in service in Sheffield until 1960. I understand that it is now on loan at the East Anglia Transport Museum at Lowestoft.

1955 Leyland Titan PD2/11

This bus took part in the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally  in Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1990.

It’s not listed in the programme of the event, but it took part in the Rally in 1998, when the programme had this note about the vehicle:

 

Leyland PD2/11   Charles H Roe   1955                                                                  UUA 207

Entered by        Robert Murray, Leeds

New to Leeds Corporation Transport this is a very rare model of which only 20 were built, all 20 being supplied to Leeds, fitted with semi-automatic pneumocyclic transmission and air brakes. Bought for preservation in 1982 from a gliding club who were about to convert it to a towing winch. Now restored to mid 60's livery with period adverts.

1928 Bugatti Type 35B

This was one of the competitors in the Richard Seaman Memorial Vintage Trophy Race at the Vintage Sports Car Club’s meeting at Oulton Park in June 1965.

It’s the 1928 Bugatti Type 35B of John Horton and has a 2,261cc supercharged 8-cylinder inline engine. The Type 35 was the most successful of the pre-war Bugattis and about 37 examples of the Type 35B were produced in the mid to late 1920s.

Cooper T45/51

This car took part in the Pre-1966 Grand Prix Cars Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998.

It's the 1958 Cooper T45/51 of Rod Jolley which has a 4-cylinder inline 2,495cc Coventry Climax FPF engine. It is a 1958 T45 model uprated to the specifications of the 1959 T51, and is chassis #F2-23A-58.

1991 Williams FW14

This is a photograph that I took on a visit to the Donington Park Museum in September 2014.

It's the 1991 Williams FW14 that was designed by Adrian Newey with a 3,493cc Renault V10 engine. It was driven by Nigel Mansell and Riccardo Patrese in the 1991 season, Mansell finishing in second place in the Drivers' Championship to Ayrton Senna and Patrese in third place with Williams in second place in the Constructors' Championship. With minor alterations the FW14B was almost unbeatable in 1992 with Mansell winning nine races and Patrese's sole victory and a string of second places gave him second place in the Drivers' Championship.

1956 Aston Martin DB3S

This is a photograph that i took in the paddock at the British Empire Trophy Race meeting at Oulton Park in April 1958.

It's the 1956 Aston Martin DB3S of John Dalton which is chassis #DB3S/10, the last of the team cars to be built, and has the 2,992cc 6-cylinder inline Lagonda engine.

Ferrari California

This is a photograph that I took at the Ferrari Racing Days meeting at Silverstone in September 2017.

It's Ferrari California with a 4,297cc 32 valve V8 Ferrari F136 engine, and body designed by Pininfarina. The California was in production from 2008 to 2017.

1906 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost

This is a photograph that I took on  a very wet day in Manchester at the Lancashire Automobile Club’s Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in June 1967

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It’s the original Rolls Royce Silver Ghost and this is the note about the car in the programme of the event:

 

22.     Rolls-Royce Limited, London, W.1.

            (Driver – Mr D.E.A.Miller-Williams, Rolls-Royce Limited).

            1906 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost 7036 c.c.

This is the original Silver Ghost built at the first Rolls-Royce works in Cooke Street, Manchester. The distinguishing name comes from the fact that Mr. Claude Johnson, the first managing director of the Company, was determined to demonstrate the ability of a new 40/50 h.p. chassis and fitted a special aluminium painted body with all the external metal work silver plated. In May 1907 the car was driven from London to Edinburgh directly in its third gear, and shortly afterwards achieved a world record run of 14,371 miles without an involuntary stop. Four drivers worked in relays for fifteen weeks under continuous R.A.C. supervision to achieve this record. To date this magnificent machine has covered well over half-a-million miles.

 

N.B. America’s recent Artemis mission recently travelled about the same distance going to the Moon and back.

1956 MG Magnette ZB

This is a photograph that I took in one of the car parks at the Vintage Sports Car Club’s meeting at Oulton Park in May 2019.

It’s a 1956 MG Magnette ZB and has a 4-cylinder inline 1,489cc engine. 18,524 of these cars were built between 1956 and 1958.

1955 Maserati 250F

This car was owned by Pete Waterman and was driven by Willie Green in the HGPCA Pre’65 Grand Prix Car Race at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992.

It's indistinguishable from a 1950s Maserati 250F, but it's the first of 12 replicas built by Cameron Millar and has the chassis number CM1. Cameron Millar acquired a genuine Maserati 250F in 1964 (originally 2501, later renumbered 2523) which he kept and raced for 8 years. In this time he purchased all the remaining cars and spare parts belonging to the Scuderia Centro Sud who had competed with the 250F in the 1950s, and also the chassis jigs from the Maserati factory. He then set about creating this series of replicas, using as far as possible genuine period parts, which are so well crafted that the FIA has allowed them to race alongside the genuine Maserati 250F and its contemporaries in competitive historic racing events.

Drag Racing 1965

In 1964 and 1965 the US National Hot Rod Association in conjunction with the British Drag Racing Association organised an exhibition tour of Britain which in 1965 included a drag race meeting on the runway of RAF Woodvale near Southport. This is a photograph that I took that day of one of the US drivers preparing for a run.

I don't recall having a programme at the event, but this is apparently Gary Casady in his Ansen Forgings Chevy powered 400 Junior Fueler.