1928 Frazer Nash Ford

This is a photograph that I took during the Oulton Park Trophy Race for Special Pre-War Sports Cars at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Hawthorn Memorial Trophies meeting in July 2015.

It's the 1928 Frazer Nash Ford of Jonathan Cobb about which the programme of the event says '....with Jonathan Cobb a likely front-runner in his Ford-engined Frazer Nash....'. The entry list in the programme of the event says that it has 3,320cc engine.

1931 Bugatti T51

I took this photograph at Druids Corner during race number 2 at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Hawthorn Memorial Trophies race meeting at Oulton Park in July 2015 which had the grand title of 'Premier Cru Racing for Pre-1941 Standard and Modified Racing Cars - 20 Mins. Incorporating the Bruce Spollon Memorial, Ten Tenths Vintage Restorations Pre-War Continental Trophies'.

It's  the 1931 Bugatti Type 51 of Stephen Shoosmith which has a supercharged 2,262cc twin cam straight-8 engine. It has the same chassis and body as the Type 35, but with a twin cam instead of a single cam engine.

VSCC Racing

I took this photograph at the start of a scratch race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Hawthorn Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in July 2015.

The blue car leading is the 1934 Frazer Nash Norris Special of Julian Grimwade ahead of, on the left, Tony Lees in the 1925 AC/GN Cognac. The red car behind the Norris Special is the 1935 Wolseley Hornet Special of Tim Greenhill with Christian Pedersen bringing up the rear in his 1932 Austin 7 Special, 'Miss Green'.

1935 ERA R4A

This car competed in the Premier Cru Race for Pre-1941 Standard and Modified Racing Cars at the Vintage Sports Cat Club's Hawthorn Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in July 2015.

It's the 1935 ERA R4A of Nick Topliss and has the 4-cylinder inline 1,980cc supercharged engine, and is seen here during the race at Druids Corner. 

1908/22 GN Thunderbug

This car competed in the Boulogne Trophy race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Hawthorn Memorial Trophies Race Meeting at Oulton Park in June 2008.

It's Mark Walker's 1908/22 GN Thunderbug, with a 4,228cc V-twin engine created using two cylinders from a 9-cylinder radial engine. The GN cyclecar was produced between 1910 and 1925, originally with a V-twin JAP or Peugeot engine, and later GN's own 1100cc engine.

1908/19 GN/JAP

I took this photograph at Lodge Corner during the Boulogne Trophy Race for Vintage Racing Cars at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Hawthorn Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in July 2015.

It's Richard Scaldwell in the GN/JAP that he had built only some 15 years earlier using a 1919 GN and a 1908 JAP 5,112cc V8 aero engine.

1917 Ford Model T Indianapolis Roadster

I took this photograph in the paddock at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Hawthorn Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 2008.

It's a 1917 Ford Model T Indianapolis Roadster and seems to be the car listed in the programme of the event as an entrant in the Cheshire Concours D'Elegance as Jonathon Bradshaw's 1917 Ford Model T Speedway with a 2,998cc engine.

1957 Cooper T41

This car competed in the Hawthorn Memorial and Spanish Trophies Race for Pre-1961 Racing Cars at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in July 2015.

It's the 1957 Cooper T41 of Duncan Ricketts that was driven in the race by Matt Ricketts, and which the programme of the event says has a 1,220cc engine. The T41 was Cooper's first step in Formula 2 racing which only two years later led to Jack Brabham winning the World Championship in the 2½ litre Formula 1 Cooper Climax T51.

Here's Matt Ricketts at Lodge Corner during the race.

1938 Delage Special

This car took part in the Brookland and Goddard Trophies race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Hawthorn Memorial Trophies Race Meeting at Oulton Park in June 2008.

Listed in the programme of the event as Rod King's 1938 Delage Special, it was based on a 1938 Delage D70 Saloon and originally used that car's 2.7 litre 6 cylinder engine It was intended to be a replica of the ERA Delage, a car that was one of the original 1927 Delage GP cars fitted with a 1½ litre ERA engine. When the Delage engine very soon gave up the ghost it was replaced by a supercharged 1938 2½ litre SS Jaguar engine, bored out to 2,664cc. The green car behind the Delage is the Rejo Mk4 of Simon Edwards that competed in the Hawthorn International Trophy race.

1929 Napier Bentley

This car competed in the Brooklands and Goddard Trophies race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Hawthorn Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 2008.

It's the 1929 Napier Bentley of Christopher Williams and this is probably an early morning shot as it bears the number 193, presumably from a previous meeting, as it was number 70 at this meeting.

The Napier-Bentley was created by Peter Morley and David Llewellyn in 1968 using a 24 litre Napier Sea Lion engine which has a 'W' configuration - two banks of four cylinders in a 'V' with a third upright bank between them. The car was originally built on a Sunbeam chassis but after an accident was rebuilt using the chassis of a 1929 8 litre Bentley.

Here's Christopher Williams at Britten's chicane during the race

1926 Vauxhall Rowley Special

This car was in the paddock at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Hawthorn Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in July 2015.

It's the 1926 Vauxhall Rowley Special, a car that was built in 1978 with a 14-40 chassis and a 30-98 engine by John Rowley and Julian Ghosh. The car then had the registration number DS 7502 and was driven in VSCC races by Julian Ghosh, who later became President of the VSCC. In the early 1980's the car's chassis was shortened and a different engine fitted, and in the late 1980s the car passed to James Warne then soon afterwards to David Biggins. David Biggins competed with the car for about 15 years and it has had a few different owners since then, including one in Northern Ireland where it acquired the GIG 8664 registration number. According to the DVLA record the car has the 4,224cc Vauxhall OE engine.

1907 Stanley 20hp Speedy Roadster

This car was one of the entrants in the Cheshire Concours d'Elegance at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Hawthorn Memorial Trophies Race Meeting at Oulton Park in June 2008.

It's Mike Clarke's 1907 Stanley 20hp Speedy Roadster, more commonly known as a Stanley Steamer and is chassis 3708. The car is listed in the Stanley Register Online.

Wolseleys

At the Vintage Sports Car Club's Hawthorn Memorial Trophies race meeting at Oulton Park in July 2015 car parks were set aside for the members of various car clubs and here are photographs I took of some of the Wolseleys that were present.

This is a 1948 Wolseley 14/60 which has a 6-cylinder inline 1,818cc engine. Production of this car started in 1938 and ended in 1948, 5,731 being built post-war.

This is a Wolseley Hornet, a badge-engineered version of the BMC Mini, which was built between 1961 and 1969 as a more luxurious version of the Austin/Morris cars. It started off with the basic 848cc Mini engine, changing to the 998cc Cooper version in 1963.

This is a 1937 Wolseley Super Six 25 Series III Drophead Coupé with a 6-cylinder inline 3,485cc engine. This model was produced between 1937 and 1939 and this particular car was the personal car of Lord Nuffield.

A 1959 Wolseley 6/90 Series III with 6-cylinder inline 2,639cc engine. 11,852 of these cars were produced between 1954 and 1959 and it was said to be the last true Wolseley, subsequent BMC models being badge-engineered as Austin, Morris, Riley and Wolseley.

The Wolseley 4/44 was designed by Gerald Palmer when Wolseley was still part of the Nuffield Group and shared many of its components with the MG Magnette ZA. 29,845 of the cars were produced between 1952 and 1956.

BFJ 907 is a  Wolseley Fourteen NF (New Fourteen), 5,790 of which were produced between 1935 and 1936, this being a 1936 model. It has a 6-cylinder inline 1,604cc engine.

I can't find out too much about this car. It appears to be a Wolseley Wasp and the DVLA record says it's a 1936 car with a 1,479cc engine, but the Wasp, produced between 1935 and 1936, had a 4-cylinder inline 1,069cc engine. Wolseley doesn't seem to have produced any cars in the 1930s with a 1,479cc engine.

1936 Alvis Speed 20 SD

I photographed this car in one of the car parks at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Hawthorn Memorial Trophies race meeting at Oulton Park in June 2008.

It’s an  Alvis Speed 20 SD Drop head coupe car with bodywork by Vanden Plas. The chassis left Alvis on 31st October 1935, was completed by Vanden Plas on 1st March 1936, and was sold in April 1936.  It is one of 5 produced as a Model SD with drop head coupe body design by Vanden Plas. Its chassis number is 13013, one of probably only three that remain, and is the only car of its type registered in the membership list of the Alvis Owner Club. Mechanically the Speed 20 SD was one of the most advanced cars manufactured in the pre war years, having independent front suspension and a gearbox with synchromesh on all gears. The 2,762cc straight-6 engine was extremely powerful giving the car a top speed of over 90 miles per hour and it is fitted with a high ratio differential which enables it to cruise comfortably in modern traffic.

1950 Bristol 400

This vehicle was one of those being displayed by various car clubs at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Hawthorn Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in July 2015.

It's a 1950 Bristol 400, one of 487 cars built between 1947 and 1950. After the Second World War the Bristol Aeroplane Company set up a car division, which later became Bristol Cars, and this was the first car they produced. AFN Ltd had reached an agreement with BMW in 1934 to import their cars, and to build and market them in the UK as Frazer Nash BMWs, and Bristol acquired a licence from Frazer Nash to base their car on the box-section frame of the BMW 326 and the engine of the BMW 328. The Bristol's engine was a slightly modified version of the 328's 6-cylinder inline 1,971cc unit, though the DVLA record says that the capacity of this car's engine is 1,951cc.

1935 Rover Speed 14 Streamline Coupé

This car was one of the entrants in the Cheshire Concours d'Elegance a the Vintage Sports Car Club's Hawthorn Memorial Trophies race meeting at Oulton Park in June 2008.

It's the 1935 Rover Speed 14 Streamline Coupé of Malcolm Mountain. The original Rover 14 P1 was introduced in 1933 with a 1,577cc 6-cylinder inline engine with a single Solex downdraught carburettor. The Streamline Saloon and Streamline Coupé were offered as alternative bodies in 1934,  and in the same year the Speed 14 Streamline Coupé was produced with a tuned engine and triple SU carburettors. Production of this car continued until 1936 and 380 were manufactured in total. 

1938 Talbot Lago T120

This car competed in the Bill Phillips Trophy Race for Standard and Modified Pre-War Sports-Cars at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Hawthorn Memorial Trophies race meeting at Oulton Park in July 2015.

It's the 1938 Talbot Lago T120 of Richard Bradford that was driven in the race by Geoffrey Bradford. When the Sunbeam Talbot Darracq (STD) concern broke up in 1934 Tony Lago purchased the Talbot part of the company and subsequent models were identified as Talbot Lagos. The T120 has a 2,996cc straight-6 engine designed by former Fiat designer Walter Becchia, who went on to design the engine for the Citroën 2CV.

Here's Geoffrey Bradford at Druids Corner during his race.

1930 Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 Zagato

This car took part in a 5 lap Scratch Race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Hawthorn Memorial Trophies Race Meeting at Oulton Park in June 2008.

It's Roger Baxter's 1930 Alfa Romeo 6C 1750 Zagato, a car designed by Vittorio Jano and the body by Italian coachbuilders Zagato. The 6C 1750 has a straight-6 1,752cc supercharged engine and was in production from 1929 to 1933. It was a successful race car, winning the Mille Miglia in both 1929 and 1930.

Alta 2-litre

This is one of the cars that took part in the race for Pre-1941 Standard & Modified Racing Cars at the VSCC's Hawthorn Memorial Trophies race meeting at Oulton Park in July 2015.

It's David Baldock's 1938/39 Alta 2-litre, which was driven in the race by Duncan Ricketts. The car has a supercharged twin cam straight-4 1,960cc engine and competed in pre-war voiturette and post-war Formula 2 races.

Here's Duncan Ricketts during the race at Druids Corner

I've featured this car previously, most recently on 23 October 2016

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Vauxhall Viper Special

This car competed in two scratch races at the VSCC's Hawthorn Memorial Trophies Race Meeting at Oulton Park in June 2008.

It's the 1913/18 Vauxhall Viper Special of Tony Lees, and is pictured here at Britten's chicane during the first of those races. The car was built by David Biggins on a 1913 Vauxhall A-Type chassis and has a 1918 Wolseley Viper 11.8 litre V8 aero engine, which was a Hispano Suiza HS-8 unit built under licence by Wolseley Motors during World War I. The Vauxhall is being followed by the 1931 Invicta S Type of Trevor Swete and the 1935 Riley Nine 12/4 Special of Richard Brightman.

On 20 May 2013 I showed a photograph of this car in the paddock at Donington Park in 2006.