1970 Atkinson Viewline

This was one of the participants in the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally in Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1993.

It's not listed in the programme of the event, but it took part again in 1995, and the note in that programme reads as follows:

Atkinson Viewline T3046X, 1970                                                                                BVB457H

Entered by     C.J. Gardner for W.H.Bowker Limited, Bamber Bridge, Preston

This is one of the last of a small number of distinctive "View-Line" tractor units built by Atkinson.

Withdrawn from service in 1983, bought for preservation 1984, restored 1986. The vehicle carries

the livery of East Lancashire Roadways of Oswaldtwistle.

Cooper

I took this photograph in the paddock at the Aston Martin Owners Club's Historic Car Races meeting at Oulton Park in September 1986, but I've not been able to identify the car shown.

The programme of the event doesn't have a number 50 in the race for which the car would have been eligible - the Historic Car Championship race. John Harper's Cooper number 27 is listed for that race, but his was a green car and a T53 that I featured on 2 September 2021. The number 50 car in this photograph appears to be a Cooper T59 Formula Junior car, but despite a search of the internet I've not been able to positively identify it. The transporter behind the Cooper shows the name of John Charles who had a Connaught entered in the Historic Car Championship race, but I've not been able to ascertain if he also had a Cooper. An internet search for  Barry Simpson Engineering Ltd also produced no results.

Pre-War Le Mans Cars Team Race

I took this photograph during the Christie's Cup Le Mans Cars Team Race at the Christie's International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992.

Leading here is the 1932 Invicta S Type of Bob Wood followed by the 1931 Alfa Romeo 8C Le Mans driven by Peter Hannen. Behind that seems to be the 1931 Bentley 8 litre of Keith Schellenberg with the red 1935 Aston Martin Ulster of Nick Mason on the outside.

1913 Standard Cheltenham Cabriolet

This car was one of the participants in the Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in June 1990, organised by the Lancashire Automobile Club and starting at the Exchange Station car park in Manchester.

It’s a Standard Model O with a 4-cylinder inline 3,336cc engine, and the programme of the event gives this information about the car:

1913 Standard Cheltenham Cabriolet

Reg: C 7655  4 cylinder  20 hp

(P. Dawson, Leyland, Lancashire)

I understand that the car is now one of the exhibits in the British Motor Museum in Gaydon, Warwickshire.

Friday's Ferrari

This was one of the competitors in the GT Challenge race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's meeting at Oulton Park in May 2018.

It's the 1999 Ferrari 360 of Matthew Wilton and John Cowan receiving some attention in the pit garage prior to the start of racing. The Ferrari 360 was produced from 1999 to 2004 and has a 3,586cc Tipo F131 V8 engine.

1978 Arrows A1

This is one of the cars that took part in the Grand Prix Masters F1 Cars 1966-1985 race at the Silverstone Classic Race in July 2010.

It's the 1978 Arrows A1 of Steve Allen and has a 2,993cc V8 Ford Cosworth DFV engine. The car was driven by Riccardo Patrese and Rolf Stommelen in the last 5 races of the 1978 season, and by Riccardo Patrese and Jochen Mass in the first 7 races of the 1979 season. The best results were a fourth place in the 1978 Canadian Grand Prix and a fifth place in the 1979 Belgian Grand Prix, both times by Riccardo Patrese.

1970 McLaren M8D

This car is pictured on the approach to Lodge Corner in the HSCC Atlantic Computers Historic G.T. Championship race at the Historic Sports Car Club's Spring Historic Race Meeting at Oulton Park in May 1986.

It's the Haslemere Sports Cars Ltd's 5-litre 1970 McLaren M8D driven by John Foulston. The car was designed for the Canadian-American Challenge Cup Series (or Can-Am) that was contested from 1966 till 1987. Bruce McLaren died in one of these cars in an accident during a testing session at Goodwood just a few days before the first of the 1970 Can-Am races, but the M8D went on to win 8 of the ten races in the series - 6 by Denny Hulme and 2 by Dan Gurney - and one race was won by Peter Gethin on a McLaren M8B. Tony Dean in a Porsche 908 was the only non-McLaren driver to win a race.