1956 Tojeiro Jaguar

This is a photograph that I took in the paddock at the British Empire Trophy race meeting at Oulton Park in April 1959.

It’s the Ecurie Ecosse 1956 Tojeiro Jaguar that was driven in the race by Jock Lawrence, finishing in 13^th place.

Cooper T51 and Jaguar D-Type

The Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1994 featured a tribute to Juan Manuel Fangio and there was a display of cars in the paddock in which he had competed in the 1950s. His nephew Juan Manuel Fangio II drove a Maserati 250F in track displays during the meeting and was joined by several other cars that had been displayed in the paddock beside those of Fangio. This is a photograph that I took at Luffield corner during one of the displays.

Neither of these cars competed in any of the races at this meeting and the leading car here is a 1959 Cooper T51, the car that took Jack Brabham to his first World Championship success in that year. Behind it is a 1955 Jaguar D-Type, one of the long-nose models that won the 1955 Le Mans 24 Hour Race, and this car is XKD606, a former Ecurie Ecosse car.

Ecurie Ecosse

I took this photograph in the paddock at Oulton Park at the British Empire Trophy Race meeting in April 1956.

The Ecurie Ecosse team had entered two Jaguar D-Types in the race to be driven by Ron Flockhart and Ninian Sanderson and here are some of the team at the side of one of the D-Types. On the left is Ron Flockhart in conversation with the founder of the team, David Murray, and next to David Murray is chief mechanic Wilkie Wilkinson. The British Empire Trophy Race was run as three preliminary heats (up to 1.5 litres, 1.6 to 2.7 litres and over 2.7 litres) and a final for the qualifying cars run as a handicap race. This proved very advantageous for the smaller capacity cars which finished in the first six places (Stirling Moss winning in a Cooper T39 Bobtail) with Ron Flockhart finishing in seventh place and Ninian Sanderson in ninth place. Three months later Ron Flockhart and Ninian Sanderson won the Le Mans 24 Hour Race in one of these Ecurie Ecosse cars.

1956 Jaguar D-Type

This was one of the competitors in the Historic Grand Prix Cars Association Sports Car Race at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992.

It's the 1956 Jaguar D-Type, chassis number XKD603, of Sir Anthony Bamford, said to be the most original of the long-nose Jaguars in existence. It started as a works car in 1956, but when Jaguar dropped out of racing the following year it was sold to Ecurie Ecosse, where it received its RSF 303 registration number. The car finished second in the 1957 Le Mans 24 Hour race when Ecurie Ecosse D-Types were first and second, and three more D-Types finished third, fourth and sixth. The car was driven in this Silverstone race by Frank Sytner.

Ecurie Ecosse Commer TS3 Transporter

This vehicle was in the paddock at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1999.

This is the 1960 Ecurie Ecosse Commer TS3 Transporter, on top of which are a Jaguar C-Type, and a Jaguar D-Type that I can't identify. The Jaguar C-Type is chassis XKC042 and was provided new to Ecurie Ecosse in 1953.

Ecurie Ecosse 1956

I took these photographs at the British Empire Trophy meeting at Oulton Park in April 1956.

This is a 1956 'shortnose' Jaguar D-Type, chassis XKD561, one of two cars entered in the race by Ecurie Ecosse and has the 6-cylinder inline 3,441cc engine.

This is Ron Flockhart who drove the car in the photograph above. The race was run in the form of three heats, for cars up to 1500cc, 1501cc to 2700cc, and over 2700cc. There was then a final race over 25 laps run on a handicap basis with the smallest capacity cars getting a 40 second start, the next group 25 seconds, and those with the largest engines on scratch. Ron Flockhart finished in seventh place in the D-Type, the first finisher in the over 2700cc class, with the six cars in front of him all being from the up to 1500cc class. Stirling Moss won the race in a Cooper T39.

This is Ninian Sanderson who drove the other Ecurie Ecosse Jaguar D-Type in the race and finished in ninth place in the final. 

Three months later. in July of 1956, the Le Mans 24 hour race was won by an Ecurie Ecosse Jaguar D-Type driven by Ron Flockhart and Ninian Sanderson.

Ecurie Ecosse Commer TS3 Transporter

These vehicles were in the paddock at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1994.

This is the 1960 Ecurie Ecosse Commer TS3 Transporter, on top of which are the 1959 Tojeiro Jaguar and behind it Lynx replica Jaguar D-Type. The car at the side of the Transporter is a Jaguar Lynx Eventer, an early 1990s Jaguar XJS, one of about 67 that were converted to 3-door shooting brakes by coachbuilders Lynx Engineering.

I've shown photographs of the Ecurie Ecosse Transporter twice before, on 16 October 2013 and 16 April 2015.

Lister Jaguar Monza

This car competed in the Ron Flockhart Memorial Trophy Race at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2004.

It's the Lister Jaguar Monza of Rod Jolley, a car that was built in 1958 to compete in the Race of Two Worlds which pitted American Indianapolis cars against European cars on Monza's banked oval track. The race had been held in 1957 when the European cars, including Ecurie Ecosse D-Type Jaguars were soundly beaten so the following year Ecurie Ecosse built this single seater car based on a Lister chassis with a 3.8 litre Jaguar engine. The race was still dominated by the American team though. Construction of the Lister Jaguar was actually completed in the paddock at Monza and it ran in the unpainted finish seen here. For a time in the 1990s though it was painted in Ecurie Ecosse blue, and on 30 April 2016 I showed a photograph of the car as it appeared at Silverstone in 1999.

Tojeiro Jaguar

This car was entered in the Louis Vuitton 1950s Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997.

It's the ex-Ecurie Ecosse 1959 Tojeiro Jaguar, then owned by the Altera Corporation and driven in the race by Barrie 'Whizzo' Williams. The car was built for Ecurie Ecosse in 1959 and its first race was the Le Mans 24 Hour race that year, driven by Ron Flockhart and Jock Lawrence, but it retired after 11 hours of racing with a wrecked engine. It was rebuilt and competed in the 1959 Tourist Trophy race at Goodwood, driven by Masten Gregory and Jim Clark, but was completely wrecked when Masten Gregory left the circuit at Woodcote Corner. The car was rebuilt many years later in its current form.

On 16 October 2013 I showed a photograph of the car (and other ex-Ecurie Ecosse cars) at the 1995 Coys meeting at Silverstone.

1960 Jaguar D-Type

I took this photograph at Aintree at, I think, the August Bank Holiday meeting on 7 August 1960.

It's an Ecurie Ecosse D-Type Jaguar in the rather ridiculous looking guise adopted to comply with the FIA Appendix J Regulations that specified a minimum height for the windscreen and a mandatory luggage space. You can barely see the added luggage space here, but there's an unsightly bump on the rear of the car next to the tail fin, and you can just see the top of it over the driver's door. I don't know who drove the car at this meeting, but it took part in the Le Mans 24 Hour race that year driven by Ron Flockhart and Bruce Halford, retiring after 168 laps with a broken crankshaft. It appears to be chassis XKD606.

Jaguar D-Type

This car competed in the Louis Vuitton 1950s Sports Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997.

It's a 1956 Jaguar D-type, chassis number XKD603, said to be the most original of the long-nose Jaguars in existence. It started as a works car in 1956, but when Jaguar dropped out of racing the following year it was sold to Ecurie Ecosse, where it received its RSF 303 registration number. The car finished second in the 1957 Le Mans 24 Hour race when Ecurie Ecosse D-types were first and second, and three more D-types finished third, fourth and sixth.The car was entered for the Silverstone race by J C Bamford Excavators and was driven by Frank Sytner.

Ecosse Ford

This car competed in the race for Group C/GTP Cars at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2005.

It's Andrew Smith's 1985 Ecosse Ford Group C2 car, one of three Ecurie Ecosse cars that competed in the Group C2 World Sports Car Championship between 1985 and 1988. You can read about the Ecosse cars here.

Ecurie Ecosse Transporter

In the paddock at Silverstone in July 2010 at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting was the Ecurie Ecosse Commer transporter which was used to carry the team's cars around for over 10 years from 1960. Here it's got one of the team's Jaguar D-types and the 1961 Le Mans Austin Healey Sprite on top, and there was room for a further car inside.

The transporter was later sold to Neil Corner and I remember seeing it several times bearing his name in the paddock at Oulton Park. I've featured the transporter previously in October 2013 with a photograph I took at Silverstone in 1995.

Ecurie Ecosse

Ecurie Ecosse was a Scottish motor racing team founded in 1952 and best known for its exploits at the Le Mans 24 Hour race, winning the event in both 1956 and 1957 with their Jaguar D-types. Former Ecurie Ecosse cars were well represented at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1995:

This is one of the Jaguar D-types,a 1955 car, owned and driven in the 1995 race by John Harper

A 1956 D-type, driven in 1995 by Frank Sytner and owned by J C Bamford

The 1959 Tojeiro Jaguar, owned in 1995 by the Altera Corporation and driven by Barrie Williams

The Tojeiro again, and behind it is the 1960 Ecurie Ecosse Commer transporter

In 1957 a Race of Two Worlds was organised at Monza for teams from the Formula One World Championship based in Europe to compete against American Indianapolis cars on the banked oval part of the Monza Autodrome. Apart from an entry from Maserati and a privateer Ferrari the only European cars entered were three Ecurie Ecosse Jaguar D-types. The race was run again in 1958 and this time Ecurie Ecosse entered two D-types and a specially built Lister-Jaguar with a single-seater body, which is the car shown above, although the aluminium body remained unpainted for the 1958 race. After that race the event was discontinued due to both the costs involved and safety concerns. The Lister was owned and driven in 1995 by Ric Weiland.