1954 HWM Jaguar

This is a photograph that I took at the Silverstone Classic meeting in July 2010.

It's Roger Buxton’s 1954 HWM Jaguar with which he and Michael Steele competed in the two hour long RAC Woodcote Trophy for Pre 1956 Sports Cars race. It has the 3,442cc straight-6 Jaguar XK6 engine that powered the Jaguar XK models, and also the C-Type and D-Type. John Abecassis and John Heath had built and raced their Formula 2 HWM cars since 1950 and in 1953 built their first sports car on a Formula 2 chassis. The team remained involved in sports car racing till 1956 when John Heath died in an accident at that year's Mille Miglia race.

1931 Bugatti Type 51

I photographed this car at the VSCC's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Donington Park in May 2001.

It's not got a race number, so I'm not certain that it took part in the meeting, but appears to be a Bugatti Type 51 and I have found an item dated 2008 on a Bugatti website which says that, according to a one-time owner Roger Buxton it was built up on a Type 35C chassis. One of the races at this Donington Park meeting includes an entry for Roger Buxton with a 1931 Bugatti Type 51 with an engine capacity of 2,270cc. The Type 51 usually has a 2,262cc engine, but the DVLA record for ESU 700 shows the capacity as 2,270cc.