Lagonda 14/60

I took this photograph at the Exchange Station car park in Manchester before the start of the Lancashire Automobile Club's Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in June 1986.

It's Ron Taylor's 1927 Lagonda 14/60 Tourer, and the programme of the event said this about it:

'98   1927 Lagonda 14/60 Tourer

         Reg: TR 3270  4 cylinder 12.9 hp

         1954cc

         (Ron Taylor, Clifton, Preston)

Well-known and noteworthy Lagonda, successful in the early 1930s when owned by W H Graham Tom of Bodmin. In three years it won gold, silver and bronze medals in the Lands End Trial, a gold medal in the London to Edinburgh Trial and the premier award in the Lands End to John O'Groats Trial. Tom, in fact, owned the car until 1964 (it was even used as a tractor during the war!) and it underwent a total restoration between 1965 and 1975 finally being painted in Tom's original beige and brown livery. Last year it won the road event in its class on this run.'

There's a Lagonda Club for owners of, or people with an interest in, Lagonda cars.

On 2 August 2016 I showed photographs of several Lagonda cars, including a 14/60 model, that I'd taken at Oulton Park in July 2015.

Lagondas at Oulton Park

I took several photographs of Lagondas at the VSCC's Hawthorn Memorial Trophies Race Meeting at Oulton Park in July 2015, in the paddock, on the track and in the spectator car parks, and here they are below.

This is Tim Parker's 1930 Lagonda 2 litre SML in the pit garage

The 1929 Lagonda 3 litre of Andrew Howe-Davies

Tim Wadsworth's 1931 Lagonda 2 litre L/C Tourer

Richard Reay-Smith's 1936 Lagonda LG45

Nicholas Hine's 1937 Lagonda LG45

Nigel Hall's 1935 Lagonda LG45

A 1929 Lagonda 2 litre High Chassis Tourer

A 1931 Lagonda Speed TML T2 Tourer 2 litre

A 1927 Lagonda 14/60

Tim Wadsworth's 1931 Lagonda 2 litre L/C Tourer at Druids Corner in race 4

Richard Reay-Smith's 1936 Lagonda LG45 at Druids Corner in race 5

Tim Parker's 1930 Lagonda 2 litre SML at Lodge Corner in race 7

Nicholas Hine's 1937 Lagonda LG45 at Lodge Corner in the re-run of race 3

You can read a short history of the Lagonda car on the Lagonda Club's website.