1935 Frazer Nash

This car took part in a ‘Handicap Race for Frazer Nash and GN Cars’ at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 1973.

It’s the 1935 Frazer Nash of B.Hopkins, and the only information about it in the programme of the event is that it had a 1,498cc engine, presumably the 4-cylinder inline Meadows unit.

1950s Grand Prix Cars

I took this photograph in the paddock at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997.

These cars are waiting to go out onto the circuit for a qualifying session for the HGPCA Pre-1960 Grand Prix Cars Race. At the front, from left to right, are the 1956 Maserati 250F of Burkhard von Schenk, the 1959 Ferrari 246 Dino of Robin Lodge, the 1954 Maserati 250F of Christian Glaesel, the 1954 Maserati 250F of Dieter Streve-Mülhens and the 1952 Fraser Nash of Peter Mann. Behind the first two cars are the 1960 Ferrari 246 Dinos of Tony Merrick and Nigel Corner, and you can also see a Cooper Bristol T23 and a Connaught A-Type.

1934 Frazer Nash

This car competed in the Historic Trophy Race at the VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 1981.

It's Guy Smith's 1934 Frazer Nash about which the programme of the event says: 'Guy Smith's smart single seater Frazer Nash has a Speed 25 Alvis engine.' This 6-cylinder inline 3,571cc engine was fitted by the brothers Frank and Jack Norris in 1937.

Franziss Special

This car took part in two races, including the one for the Boulogne Trophy, at the VSCC's meeting at Oulton Park in June 2006.

It's Roger Sweet's 1928/18 Franziss Special, created by Roger Sweet himself in the spirit of earlier VSCC Specials, with a Frazer Nash chassis and a 9 litre V8 Curtiss OX-5 aero engine.

Cooper Bristol

Here's a group of cars lined up in the paddock at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in August 1996.

On the front row are four Cooper Bristols; the two cars nearest the camera are the 1952 models of Proby Cautley and Spencer Flack, and behind that the 1953 cars of Bob Gilbert and Graham Burrows. The red car behind them all is the 1952 Frazer Nash of Peter Mann. Whilst generally being known as the Cooper Bristol because of the Bristol engine, it's also known as the Cooper T20.