1929 Bugatti Type 40

This car took part in the Lancashire Automobile Club's annual Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in June 1990 and is pictured in the Exchange Station car park in Manchester prior to the start of the Run.

It's the 1929 Bugatti Type 40 of M.C. Dickson of London which the Bugatti Trust says is a Grand Sport type 40, chassis 40652 with engine no. 584, that was supplied to Sorel in London on 25th October 1928 and sold to Percy Hargreaves of Blackpool in March 1929. Registered on 27th March 1929 as UF 4524. A note about the car in the programme of the event reads as follows:

126   1929 Bugatti Type 40

          Reg: UF 4524    4 cylinder    1496cc

          (M.C. Dickson, London W14)

Jointly owned by Mike and Hugh Dickson,

it was first entered on the Run in 1987.

Bugattis

There were four Bugattis entered in the Lancashire Automobile Club's annual Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in June 1991 and two of them are pictured below in the Exchange Station car park in Manchester before the start of the Run.

This is Mike and Hugh Dickson's 4-cylinder 1,496cc 1926 Bugatti Type 40, chassis number 40652, and the programme of the event said this about it:

123   1929 Bugatti Type 40

          Reg: UF 4524    4 cylinder    1496cc

          (Hugh Dickson, London W14)

Jointly owned by Mike and Hugh Dickson,

it was first entered on the Run in 1987.

This is the cockpit of Barry Parkinson's 4-cylinder 1,496cc 1926 Bugatti Type 37, and the only other information about the car in the programme is that its registration number is DS 6894.

On 29 October 2015 I showed a photograph of this car at the 1986 Run.