1955 HWM Jaguar

This car competed in the Pre and Post War Single Seater and Post War Sports Cars Handicap Race at the Vintage Sports Car Club’s Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in June 1985.

It's the 1955 HWM Jaguar of Kirk Rylands, one of a handful of sports cars produced by the Hersham and Walton Motors company of John Heath and George Abecassis, and has the 3,781cc 6-cylinder inline Jaguar XK engine.

1953 Cooper Bristol

This was one of the competitors in the race for Pre-1959 Front Engined Racing Cars at the Vintage Sports Car Club’s Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies Meeting at Oulton Park in June 1993.

It's the 1953 Cooper Bristol T23 (or MkII) of Raymond Wilkinson and is powered by a 1,971cc straight-6 Bristol engine based on the one in the pre-war BMW 328. The original Cooper Bristol was designed as a Formula 2 car, but found itself involved in Grand Prix racing in 1952 and 1953 when the World Championship was run to Formula 2 regulations.

The car on the left is the 1952/57 HWM Jaguar of Kirk Rylands and the car number 18 in the background is the 1936 ERA R14B of Donald Day.

1952 HWM F2

This was one of the competitors in the HGPCA Pre '60 GP Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in August 1999.

It's Kirk Rylands' HWM, described in the programme of the event as a 1957 car with an engine capacity of 3,442cc (the car had been given a Jaguar engine, hence the '1957'). HWM competed in Formula 2 races from 1950 to 1953, and in the last two of those years the World Championship for Drivers was run under Formula 2 rules. By 1952 the cars had become uncompetitive and a revised model, as pictured, was introduced, but this car was also largely outclassed by the opposition. The best result they achieved was probably when Paul Frère and Peter Collins finished in second and third places to Emmanuel de Graffenried's Maserati A6GCM in the ADAC Eifelrennen race at the Nürburgring in 1953.

1952/57 HWM Jaguar

This car took part in the HGPCA Pre '65 Grand Prix Car Race at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992.

It's the HWM Jaguar of Kirk Rylands, a 1952 HWM Formula 2 car with a 1957 6-cylinder inline 3,442cc Jaguar XK6 engine. 

HWM

This car took part in the 10-Lap Race for Pre-1961 Racing Cars at the VSCC's Richard Seaman Trophy Vintage Car Races meeting at Oulton Park in August 1992.

It's Kirk Rylands' HWM, described in the programme of the event as a 1952/57 car with an engine capacity of 3,442cc (the car had been given a Jaguar engine, hence the '52/57'). HWM competed in Formula 2 races from 1950 to 1953, and in the last two of those years the World Championship for Drivers was run under Formula 2 rules. I showed photographs of one of the 1951 cars on 31 December 2012 and 4 June 2017. By 1952 the cars had become uncompetitive and a revised model, as pictured, was introduced, but this car was also largely outclassed by the opposition. The best result they achieved was probably when Paul Frère and Peter Collins finished in second and third places to Emmanuel de Graffenried's Maserati A6GCM in the ADAC Eifelrennen race at the Nürburgring in 1953.

HWM Jaguar

There was a round of the 'Historic Car Championship' at the Historic Car Races organised by the Aston Martin Owners Club at Oulton Park in September 1986, and one of the cars taking part in the race was the car pictured below.

It's a 1955 HWM Jaguar, and the programme of the event shows the entrant of this car to have been Tiffen King Nicholson - apparently a Cumbrian estate agent practice. The car was driven in the race by Kirk Rylands. The Wikipedia article on HWM says this about the sports cars they produced:

'Meanwhile, the first Jaguar-engined HWM sports racing car had appeared in 1953, and this had some success with George Abecassis at the wheel. From then on until 1957, the team was involved in sports car racing both in Britain and on the continent, sometimes beating their Jaguar and Aston Martin Works competitors. After John Heath was killed on the 1956 Mille Miglia in Italy in an HWM Works car, Abecassis did not wish to continue and the works racing programme continued for just a year.'

This is Kirk Rylands at Lodge Corner during the race.