1913 Theophile Schneider

I took this photograph at the Northern Classic Car Show in the G-Mex Centre, Manchester in August 1990.

It's a 1913 Theophile Schneider and there's no mention of it in the brochure of the event, but it appears to be on the stand of the Manchester Vintage Car Club. I have a photograph I took of the car at Oulton Park in 1992 where it was entered by Roger Firth and the programme for that meeting shows it to have a 4-cylinder inline 5,504cc engine and also says: 'The 5.5 litre Theophile Schneider of Roger Firth was built up by John Rowley and is of the type which ran in the 1913 French Grand Prix at Amiens with an L-head side-valve engine.'

1913 Theophile Schneider

This was one of the competitors in the 4 lap handicap race for Edwardian Cars at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in August 1992.

It's the 1913 Theophile Schneider of Roger Firth, and has a 4-cylinder inline 5,504cc engine. A note about the car in the programme of the event says:

'The 5.5 litre Theophile Schneider of Roger Firth was built up by John Rowley and is of the type which ran in the 1913 French Grand Prix at Amiens with an L-head side-valve engine.'

Theophile Schneider

This car competed in the race for VSCC Edwardian Racing Cars at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2007.

Described in the programme of the event as a 1913 Theophile Schneider Aero Special with an engine capacity of 9934cc, the entrant was N Hilyard and the car was to be driven by Charles Gillett. I've previously shown photographs of a Theophile Schneider on 27 November 2013.

Edwardian Cars

Here are some photographs of an Edwardian racing car taken at the Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in July 1987.

It's a 1913 Theophile Schneider.

It took part in a 4 lap handicap race entered and driven by G. Little.

The programme of the event had this to say about the car after mentioning the oldest car at the meeting, a 1903 Mercedes:

'A 10 year jump from the 1903 Gordon Bennett race brings us to the 1913 French Grand Prix at Amiens, and a car of the type that ran there is due to be at Oulton Park today. It is G. Little's Theophile Schneider, with a long stroke 96 x 190mm, 5600cc engine.'

I can't find any website giving any information about this car but this site on Flickr shows a photograph of the car taken in 2009 and many photographs of other Edwardian cars.