Boeing 757

These photographs were taken at 12:39pm on 7 September 2014 and are of Condor Flight DE 7669 passing over Hyde and preparing to land at Manchester Airport.

It's a Boeing 757-330 flying from Zakynthos to Manchester

The aircraft registration number is D-ABOJ

Apparently the Condor airline was originally was originally Deutsche Flugdienst GmbH and you can read the history of the company here.

Friday's Ferrari

This is a car I photographed at the Ferrari Owners Club area at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1995.

It's a 1952 Ferrari 225 Sport Spyder and I featured the same car in December 2012, at the 1996 meeting; its serial number is 0198ET and it was owned at that time by David Vine.

Cisitalia D46

This is one of the cars entered in the 'Ron Flockhart Memorial Trophy Race' at the SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2004.

It's a 1946 Cisitalia D46 and was entered and driven in the race by Richard Pilkington. It raced in the Voiturette class and Wikipedia says this about the car:

'Using Fiat parts as a base Dante Giacosa designed the D46 which made its successful debut in 1946. Giacosa had a vast knowledge of Fiat bits and pieces as he had designed the legendary 500 Fiat Topolino before WW II. The engine and suspension were directly derived from the small Fiat but extensively modified for racing. The engine received dry sump lubrication and further tweaks considerably increased the power output to 60-70 bhp. With a spaceframe chassis and weighing under 400 kg (880 lb) the available power was more than enough for competitive performance. Dusio's dream of a one model series came to nothing, but instead his D46s started to dominate the voiturette series. Highly talented drivers like Tazio Nuvolari piloted the D46 to multiple successes against more advanced but older racing cars.'

You can read more about the car here.

Higham Special 'Babs'

Here's a photograph I took at the 1983 Northern Classic Car Show in the Belle Vue exhibition halls, Manchester in September 1983.

It's the Higham Special otherwise known as 'Babs', a Land Speed Record car built by John Parry-Thomas based on one of Count Louis Zborowski's 'Chitty Bang Bang' cars. Whilst making a record attempt at Pendine Sands in South Wales in March 1927 the car overturned and John Parry-Thomas was killed. His friends buried the wreckage of the car in the dunes and it was dug up in 1969 by Owen Wyn Owen who then commenced a lengthy restoration job which still hadn't been completed at the time the car was put on show in Manchester. The restoration is now finished and the car is put on display each summer in a specially built museum at Pendine as this piece in the Carmarthen Journal reports.

Friday's Ferrari

This photograph was taken at the VSCC Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies Meeting at Donington Park in May 2001.

It's a Ferrari Dino 246 F1 and, though it's got no race numbers, only one Dino is shown in the programme of the event and that's Robin Lodge's 1959 model, chassis number 0006. It's shown in the entry list for 'The Ron Flockhart Memorial Trophy Race For Post War, Pre 61 Racing Cars' and I can't even remember if it ran in that race because the entry list for Robin Lodge shows that he nominated two alternatives, the Dino and his 1954 Lancia D50. I don't know if the Lancia was present as I haven't got a photograph of it taken on that day, but that's possibly because I spent so much time looking at and photographing the C-Type and D-Type Auto Unions which were the meeting's star attractions.

Lotus 16

On 27 August I showed a photograph of a Lotus 12, the first single-seater racing car built by Colin Chapman. In the same race at that August 1996 Oulton Park VSCC meeting was a car which was the successor of the Lotus 12, the Lotus 16, shown here being driven by Philip Walker at Lodge Corner.

It was an improved version of the Lotus 12 with the bodywork designed by Frank Costin who also designed the Vanwall, to which it bears a passing resemblance. Like the Lotus 12 though it didn't have much success, being dogged by unreliability problems.

Arnolt Bristol

According to the programme of the event car number 20 in  the 'Guards Trophy GTSR Race', race 6 of the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2008, was a 1953 Cooper Mk1 T20 driven by Ed Cottam of Fareham. Here's the car in the paddock and it's obviously not a Cooper T20:

It's an Arnolt Bristol from the early 1950s and you can read what www,classicandperformancecar.com says about it here.

Here's Ed Cottam at Lodge Corner during the race