1913 Sunbeam 3 litre

I took this photograph at the Doune Museum in Perthshire which we visited when on a family holiday in Scotland in August 1996.

The museum description of the car reads as follows:

'A replica of the earlier French Grand Prix racers. This car was bought new in 1913 for the son of a Galloway family. When he was killed in 1914 or 1915, during the First World War, his mother ordered that the car be buried. It received its first Log Book in 1974, having been recovered after being struck by a plough. The engine was still free, and after restoration, the car went on to take part in hill climbs, including Doune, and other events.'

1929 Rally Type ABC

I took this photograph at the Doune Museum in Perthshire which we visited when on a family holiday in Scotland in August 1996.

It's a 1929 Rally Type ABC, a French car that was imported to the UK by motor traders J A Driskell and L Cutbill jnr and entered in the MCC Land's End Trial in 1929, later that year appearing in the inaugural Brookland Double Twelve race. It was road registered as UL8540 and remained in the Home Counties until the mid-1950s when it was acquired by Lord Doune for his collection where it remained for some 30 years.

1937 SS Jaguar 100

This is one of the cars I photographed during a visit to the Doune Motor Museum when on a family holiday in Scotland in August 1996.

It's a 1937 SS Jaguar 100, and a note in the Donington Collection brochure says this about the car:

'The foundation on which the Jaguar sports car tradition was based in the post-war years was the pre-war SS 100 range of cars built by William Lyons, later Sir William Lyons who ran a company called Swallow Coachbuilding. A striking production of the late thirties was the SS 100 which had some competition successes just before the war. This particular car was bought by Lord Moray in the early 1960s when he decided to take up competitive motoring, and in particular hill climbs. At present, it still has the post-war Jaguar XK140 engine that was installed some years ago, but an original SS engine has been obtained to bring the car back to its original specification. It was one of the best looking English sports cars of its time.'

The museum closed in November 1998.