One of the car clubs represented at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1998 was the Lea-Francis Owners' Club. The Lea-Francis 14hp engine powered the Connaught L2 and L3 sports cars of the late 1940s/early 1950s and several of these cars were on display.
This is a 2½ litre 1948 Connaught L2 and is chassis #7004, the fourth car built. The original 4-cylinder 1,767cc Lea-Francis engine was replaced by the 2,496cc unit in 1952 and you can read the history of the car related by Bonhams when they offered the car for auction in 2004.
This is a 1950 Connaught L3 model but I can't find out much about it, only that the DVLA say that it was first registered in June 1952 and has the 1,767cc engine.
On 19 August 2015 and 25 June 2017 I showed photographs of the Connaught L2, and on 12 October 2015 I showed the later Connaught sports car, the 1954 ALSR.
