1955 Cooper Bristol T40

I took this photograph in the paddock at the Coys Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1993.

It’s the Cooper Bristol T40 that Jack Brabham drove in the British Grand Prix of 1955 and which in 1993 was owned by Thomas Bscher and driven in the Champagne Charles Heidsieck Sports Car race at the meeting by Katharina Schmidt.

1960 Lola Mk1

I took this photograph at Luffield Corner during the Classic Car Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1994.

It's Stirling Moss in his 1960 Lola Mk1 which is chassis BR17. The Lola Mk1 was designed by Eric Broadley in 1958 and was powered by a 4-cylinder inline1,098cc Coventry Climax engine. Around 40 of the cars were built and a variety of engines used, this car having 1,220cc Coventry Climax engine.

Robey Traction Engine

When I attended the historic car meetings at Silverstone in the 1990s there was always a sprinkling of old buses and commercial vehicles on the infield at the far end of the paddock, and this is one that I photographed at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting in July 1995.

It's a Robey Traction Engine and there's no mention of it in the programme of the event, but Robey produced traction engines from the last quarter of the nineteenth century to the first quarter of the twentieth century. I would estimate that the one here dates from the years immediately preceding the First World War that started in 1914.