Singer Owners Club

I took this photograph of cars belonging to members of the Singer Owners Club at the Northern Classic Car Show at Belle Vue, Manchester in September 1984.

I didn't make a note of the individual cars at the time, but I've been able to identify the first four. On the left is a 1934 Singer 1½ litre Four Seater Sports Tourer, registration number US 5285 and next to that is a 1½ litre 1934 Singer Le Mans, BGN 1. The third car is a 1937 1 litre Singer 9, CTB 357 and then a 1936 1 litre Singer Le Mans, APW 971.

1934 Singer Le Mans

I took this photograph at the Northern Classic Car Show at Belle Vue, Manchester in September 1984.

It's a 1934 Singer Le Mans, a special version of the Singer Nine Le Mans car, which originally had a 4-cylinder inline 972cc engine. The 1934 Le Mans Special had a 6-cylinder 1,493cc engine and the cars finished in 7th and 8th place in the Le Mans 24 Hour Race that year. BGN 1 was apparently at one time owned by a colleague of Ian Fleming, Merlin Minshall, and his adventures with the car are recorded by the Singer Owners Club.

1933 Singer Le Mans

This car was on the stand of the Singer Owners Club at the Northern Classic Car Show at the G-Mex Centre in Manchester in August 1993.

It's a 1933 Singer Le Mans which was a variant of the 4-cylinder inline 972cc Singer 9 model with a more highly tuned engine and other improvements that made it successful at a variety of motoring events, Though not particularly successful at Le Mans.

Singer Le Mans

This was one of the entrants in the Lancashire Automobile Club's Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run, starting from The Village Hotel at Cheadle, Stockport, in June 1993.

It's a 1933 Singer Le Mans, and the only information the programme of the event had about it was that the owner was Eric Watkiss of Ansdell, Lytham, Lancashire. The Le Mans was a variant of the 972cc inline-4 Singer 9 model with a more highly tuned engine and other improvements that made it successful at a variety of motoring events, including Le Mans.  There's a Singer Owners' Club for owners of all Singer cars.