1937 HRG 1½ Litre

I took this photograph at Druids Corner during the Bill Phillips Trophy Race for Standard & Modified Pre-War Sports Cars at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in July 2015.

It's Andrew Mitchell in his 1937 HRG 1½ Litre which has a has a 4-cylinder inline 1,496cc Meadows engine. The programme of the event says this:

'Andrew Mitchell has scored two 2nd Place finishes in his ever-competitive HRG so far this season so will be determined to finally go one better today and successfully defend a trophy he has won the past two occasions.'

(He did go on to win the race by 1.9 seconds from the 1933 Riley TT Sprite of Tim Kneller)

Bristol 401 'Mitchell Special'

I'd not heard of this car before I saw it at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in May 2011, but it's the Mitchell Special, based on an early 1950s Bristol 401 and you can read about it here. It was driven in the Pre-1961 Sports & GT Cars race by the builder of the car, Andrew Mitchell, and I took the photograph below during that race at McLeans Corner.

I would have liked to have included here a photograph of the standard Bristol 401, but on looking through my photographs it seems that I've never actually taken a photograph of one, nor of the virtually identical Bristol 403.