Car Badges

Here are photographs I took of the badges of 6 of the cars at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in August 1996.

1932 Alfa Romeo 8C Monza

1925 Bugatti T35T

1948 Talbot Lago T26

1936 ERA R12B

1959 Ferrari 246 Dino

1938 Maserati 4CM

1931 Alfa Romeo 8C Monza

This is a photograph I took at Lodge Corner during the Richard Seaman Memorial Historic Trophy Race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton park in June 1981.

It's Rodney Felton in his 1931 Alfa Romeo 8C Monza which has an 8-cylinder inline 2,557cc supercharged engine.

Alfa Romeo 8C 2300

I took this photograph in the paddock at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in June 1973.

It's two of Chris Mann's 8C Alfa Romeos, and he drove the 1932 Monza on the left in the Richard Seaman Memorial Historic Trophy Race at the meeting.

1932 Alfa Romeo 8C Monza

This car competed in two races at the VSCC's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2019 and is pictured at Britten's chicane during the morning practice session.

It's the 1932 Alfa Romeo 8C Monza of Chris Mann which he drove for about 10 years in the red colour of Italy until it was rebuilt recently and given this two-tone blue colour scheme as a tribute to prewar French racing driver Hellé Nice. Vittorio Jano designed the 8-cylinder supercharged engine in 1931 originally with a capacity of 2,336cc and Tazio Nuvolari's victory in the 1931 Italian Grand Prix gave it the 'Monza' name. In 1933 the engine was enlarged to 2,557cc and in 1935 to 2,905cc. As Chris Mann's car is a 1932 model it should have the 2.3 litre engine, but the programme of this event shows the capacity as 2,750cc.

1932 Alfa Romeo 8C Monza

This car competed in two races at the VSCC's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2019.

Shown here in the scrutineering bay, it's the 1932 Alfa Romeo 8C Monza of Chris Mann which he drove for about 10 years in the red colour of Italy until it was rebuilt recently and given this two-tone blue colour scheme as a tribute to prewar French racing driver Hellé Nice. Vittorio Jano designed the 8-cylinder supercharged engine in 1931 originally with a capacity of 2,336cc and Tazio Nuvolari's victory in the 1931 Italian Grand Prix gave it the 'Monza' name. In 1933 the engine was enlarged to 2,557cc and in 1935 to 2,905cc. As Chris Mann's car is a 1932 model it should have the 2.3 litre engine, but the programme of this event shows the capacity as 2,750cc.

Here's Chris Mann at Britten's chicane during the morning practice session.

Williams Trophy Race

I took this photograph at Redgate corner on the first lap of the Williams Trophy Race at the VSCC's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in June 2008. The race celebrates the win of Grover Williams in the first Monaco Grand Prix in 1929 and the trophy that he won in that race is in the custody of the Bugatti Trust, and is given to the winner of this race to hold for one year.

Leading is the 1932 Bugatti T51 of  Charles Dean and close behind him the 1926 Bugatti T35B of Mike Preston. The light blue car in the centre of the picture is the 1928 Bugatti T35B of Brandon Smith-Hilliard with the 1927 Lea-Francis Hyper of Miss E Brewster, driven by Jeremy Brewster, coming round on the outside. The red car on the left of the picture is the 1932 Alfa Romeo 8C Monza of Graham Burrows being driven by Chris Mann, and almost alongside him is the 1931 Bugatti T51 of Stephen Shoosmith.

Alfa Romeo 8C Monza

This was one of the competitors in the Maserati UK Race for Pre 1952 Grand Prix Cars at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000.

It's Peter Neumark's 1932 Alfa Romeo 8C Monza, originally built with a 2.3 litre supercharged straight-eight engine, but the programme of the event says that this car has the later 2.6 litre unit that was fitted to the cars from 1933. The car is painted in the French blue racing colours, but I don't know if it's the blue Alfa Romeo 8C driven by French driver Louis Chiron in the 1933 racing season. The car was given the 'Monza' name after its victory in the 10 hour long 1931 Italian Grand Prix at the Monza circuit co-driven by Giuseppe Campari and Tazio Nuvolari.