1909 Albion A6 Tourer

This is one of the cars that took part in the Lancashire Automobile Club's Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in June 1979 and is pictured before the start of the Run.

It's a 1909 Albion A6 Tourer and a short note in the programme of the event reads as follows:

'B. L. Heritage Ltd & Leyland Historic Vehicles Ltd., Studley. Warwicks.

1909 Albion A6 Tourer. 4-cylinder. 5.6 litres. (Driver: D. Abell).'

This collection at Studley is now the British Motor Museum.

1928/30 DH-Riley

This car competed in a ten lap scratch race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in August 1996.

It's the 1928/30 DH-Riley of Geraint Owen, a 6,124cc engined car about which the programme of the event says: '....Geraint Owen's DH-Riley is powered by another aero engine of the De Havilland Gypsy Variety....'. The car was put up for auction by RM Sotheby's in October 2020.

1962 Cooper Climax T60

This is  photograph I took at the Donington Park Museum in October 1989.

It's the Cooper Climax T60, chassis F1-17-61, that was introduced in 1962 and was driven by Bruce McLaren and Tony Maggs that season. The book 'Great Racing Cars of the Donington Collection' says this about the car:

When Cooper's V8 won

McLaren's Monaco success

3 June 1962 saw the Monaco Grand Prix run around the tortuous street circuit of Monte Carlo. The race began with a terrific multiple pile-up on the first corner, and from the seventh lap Graham Hill led in his new BRM V8. After ninety laps around this gruelling course the BRM began to sicken, and three laps later Hill retired and surrendered a 48-second lead to Bruce McLaren's reliable Cooper-Climax V8.

The popular New Zealander paced himself to the finish to win by 1.3 seconds from the reigning World Champion Phil Hill's Ferrari V6, and as the chequered flag signalled him home it heralded Cooper's last Championship race win for nearly five years.

Once Lotus, Ferrari, BRM and the other major teams had become converted to building their racing cars with the engines behind the driver, Cooper found it more and more difficult to hold their own. Their cars were solid, safe and workmanlike, but as the advantage moved - particularly to Lotus - so Cooper found themselves more and more out on a limb. No longer did they receive the best engines, the best attention or backing, and after Bruce McLaren scored a win in the non-Championship Marne Grand Prix at Reims in mid 1962 the remainder of the 1½ litre Formula saw a long hard drought for the former double-World Champion team.

Bruce's car in this last unsuccessful season was the Cooper T60, perhaps the most handsome Grand Prix car ever produced by the Surbiton firm. It suffered some failures in its Cooper-Knight six-speed gearbox, but McLaren was third in the year's World Championship and team-mate Tony Maggs was seventh. Bruce's Monaco winner was raced by the private Bob Gerard team in 1964-65, after which it joined the Wheatcroft stable.

1971 March 711

I took this photograph in the paddock at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000.

It didn't take part in any of the races and isn't mentioned in the programme of the meeting, but it's a 1971 March 711. As well as having a works March team cars were sold to private entrants and most of the cars had a 2,993cc V8 Ford Cosworth DFV engine, but March effectively entered two teams in the 1971 races, one using the Cosworth engine and the other the 2,998cc V8 Alfa Romeo T33 engine. With the private entrants there could be as many as six of the March 711 and 701 cars in some of the Grand Prix races that year. The highest placed March driver in the World Drivers' Championship was Ronnie Peterson who finished in second place, and although he didn't manage to win any of the races he had five podium finishes.

1956 Lotus Eleven Le Mans

This car competed in the Historic Car Championship Race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's Autumn Historic Car Races meeting at Oulton Park in September 1993.

It's the 1956 Lotus Eleven Le Mans of Andrew Wilkinson, which the programme of the event says has a 1,500cc engine. The Lotus Eleven was a completely new car, unlike the previous production Lotuses, the Mk VIII, Mk IX and Mk X which were all based on the Lotus Mk VI. The Eleven had a steel tubular space-frame with stressed aluminium panels, and the aerodynamic body was designed by Frank Costin and was hinged at both ends to give complete access to the engine and other mechanical parts. The car was mainly designed to run in the 1,100cc class of racing, but other engines of up to 2½ litres were also used. The Lotus Eleven Le Mans differed from the standard Lotus Eleven in that it had a wider chassis frame in order to provide Le Mans regulation-width seats, and cockpit and footwell minimum dimensions, but the overall width of the bodywork was no different to the standard car.

1959 AEC Reliance

This is one of the vehicles entered in the Greater Manchester Transport Society's Trans Lancs Historic Vehicle Rally at Heaton Park, Manchester in September 1995.

It's a 1959 AEC Reliance with Plaxton Panorama bodywork, and the programme of the event said this about it:

 

'AEC Reliance, Plaxton Panorama, 1959                                                           129 DPT

Entered by            P. Salmon, Chapelthorpe, Wakefield

The vehicle was purchased new by E. Howe (Spennymore), a founder member of the OK Motor Group. It was acquired for preservation in 1982.'

Several engines were available for the Reliance, and the DVLA record says that 129 DPT has the 7,680cc AEC diesel engine.

Friday's Ferrari

This car took part in the Corse Clienti Ferrari Challenge Trofeo Pirelli race at the Ferrari Racing Days meeting at Silverstone in September 2017.

It's the Ferrari 488 Challenge of Dutch driver Fons Scheltema, a car which has a 670hp 3,902cc V8 turbocharged engine developed from that of the Ferrari 488 GTB.