Auburn

I photographed this car at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in August 1996.

It appears to be a mid-1930s Auburn 851 boat-tail Speedster, a car which was produced from 1935 to 1937 and had a 4.6 litre straight-6 Lycoming engine with a Schweitzer-Cummins supercharger.

Rainy Day at Oulton Park

I took this photograph of two Aston Martins in the paddock at Oulton Park on a very wet day at the Aston Martin Owners Club's Autumn Historic Car Races meeting in September 1992.

On the right is Simon Draper's straight six 2,992cc 1954 Aston Martin DB3S, chassis #DB3S/7. Originally built with a coupe body but was rebuilt with an open body after an accident in the 1954 Le Mans 24 Hour race. The car on the left is a straight six 3,670cc 1960 Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato, the first one built, and it's chassis #200R. On 23 January 2016 I showed a photograph of this car that I'd taken at Silverstone in 2010.

Friday's Ferrari

The Vintage Sports Car Club's SeeRed meeting at Donington Park in September 2004 included a round of the Shell Ferrari Maserati Historic Challenge, and this is one of the cars that took part in that race.

It's David Franklin's 2,953cc V12 1960 Ferrari 250GT SWB and is chassis #1917GT. It is pictured here in the pit lane during a practice session.

West Somerset Railway

We spent our summer holiday in 1998 at St Ives in Cornwall, travelling down by car on 31st July, staying overnight near Minehead, and completing the journey to St Ives on Saturday 1st August. Before leaving Minehead we visited the railway station which was (and still is) the terminus of the West Somerset Heritage Railway. Here are the photographs I took there that morning.

4160 is a 2-6-2 GWR 5101 Class (better known as Large Prairie) locomotive built in Swindon in September 1948. It is one of many locomotives that were eventually rescued from Dai Woodham's scrapyard in Barry, South Wales where lots of them ended up.

4920 is a 4-6-0 GWR Hall Class (also known as 4900 Class) locomotive named Dumbleton Hall built at Swindon in March 1929.

Dumbleton Hall is also one of the locomotives that was rescued from Dai Woodham's yard.

7820, named Dinmore Manor, is a 4-6-0 British Railways Manor Class locomotive, one of 10 that were built by British Railways at Swindon in 1950 to join the original 20 built by GWR in 1938 and 1939.

Vanwall

This car took part in the Pre '61 Grand Prix Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1995.

It's Vijay Mallya's 1958 Vanwall, chassis VW10, that was driven in the race by John Harper. A note in the programme of the event about some of the cars in that race said this about the Vanwall:

Vanwall

The London engineering company Vandervell Products tried longer and harder than others  to prove the contention of boss Tony Vandervell that British cars could take on the Italians - and beat them fair and square. It was a long, hard struggle, but by the end of 1957 Vanwall was the dominant force in grand prix racing, and the following year won the manufacturers' championship. The cars were all broken up when the team stopped racing - all except one car, which was kept for display purposes, and has returned to the winners' circle 37 years on.

I don't think the bit about the other cars being broken up is totally correct as I seem to remember from many years ago that the remaining cars were offered for sale, and certainly the Donington Callection has several examples of the Vanwall.

On 23 May 2017 I showed a photograph of Vijay Mallya's car at the 1993 Coys meeting at Silverstone.

Jowett Jupiter R4

This is a photograph I took at an Oulton Park meeting in the late 1950s I think, as it's one I took with my old Kodak Brownie 127 camera. I don't know the year or the event, but it was a club meeting, probably the Mid-Cheshire Motor Racing Club or the Lancashire & Cheshire Car Club.

It's a 1953 Jowett Jupiter R4 sports car with the 1,486cc Jowett flat-four engine, one of apparently only 3 cars made.

Mercedes Benz SSK

I photographed this car in the paddock at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies meeting at Oulton Park in August 1992.

It's a 1931 Mercedes Benz, and I've got it labelled as an SSK, but it didn't take part in the meeting and there's nothing in the programme about the car. I can find no other information about it, but if it is a Mercedes Benz SSK it should have a straight-6 supercharged 7.1 litre engine.

Correction (see comments below); It's a 1930 7.8 litre Mercedes Benz 38/250 SS Tourer