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This car competed in the HGPCA Sports Car Race at the Christie’s International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1992. It's the 1957 Ferrari 500 TRC of David Cottingham has a twin overhead camshaft 4-cylinder inline 1,984cc engine derived from the 1953 Formula 2 unit designed by Aurelio Lampredi and a body designed and built by Scaglietti. The 500TRC was an updated version of the 500TR, the first to have the 'Testa Rossa' red camshaft covers, modified to comply with the 1957 Appendix C Regulations, and it was a 'customer' car, never being raced by Scuderia Ferrari. David Cottingham's car is chassis 0682MDTR that was first owned by Ecurie Nationale Belge (also known as Equipe National Belge) which was formed by a merger of Ecurie Belge and Ecurie Francorchamps. It finished in seventh place in the 1957 Le Mans 24 hour race in the hands of Lucien Bianchi and Georges Harris, winning the 2 litre class.
This car competed in the 500cc Formula Three Cars class in the Historic Formula Junior Championship race at the Aston Martin Owners Club's Autumn Historic Car Races meeting at Oulton Park in September 1992. It's the 1954 Cooper Mk VIII of Andrew Garner, one of the cars which dominated Formula 3 racing in the early postwar years. Many people found that the home-built cars with a 500cc motor cycle engine was an inexpensive way to compete in motor sport and Charles Cooper and his son John started to produce these cars in 1946, firstly for themselves but later making them for other people and eventually they formed the company that led to the Cooper Climax T51 with which Jack Brabham won the World Drivers' Championship in 1959.
Competing cultural events on a Sunday afternoon at the Wollongong Botanical Gardens
A wedding (Cambodian) and a photo shoot on the bridge.
This car competed in the HSCC Pre'80 Endurance Challenge race at the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in August 2018 and I took this photograph during the Saturday qualifying session. It's the 1975 March 75S of Kevin Cooke, originally with a 4-cylinder inline 1,499cc turbocharged BMW M12 engine, later replaced with a 1,975cc Cosworth unit. It is chassis 75S/3 and was originally bought by French racing driver Michel Pignard.
Brooke competing in 4H at the Blue Moon Ranch. On this date, 1-3-15, she won the overall High Point Trophy.
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Former southern region 09022 competes with one of the last 2 somersault signals remaining in the UK. The wooden arm still drops apparently, although it was demonstrated the only levers which remain operational in the signal box close the white pedestrian gates across the track.
This car competed in the Shell Ferrari Historical Challenge race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1997. It's the 1954 Ferrari 500 Mondial of Geoffrey Williams with a 4-cylinder inline 1,985cc engine designed by Aurelio Lampredi and body by Scaglietti. It is chassis #0454MD and was originally provided for US racing driver Bob Said. It was sold in 1955 to Tony Palmer-Morewood and remained in the USA - at one point with a Chevrolet engine - until the early 1990s when it came to the UK and was acquired by Geoffrey Williams.
The Welcome to Little Italy sign has been up for ages on Mulberry Street, but the Welcome to Chinatown sign is a recent addition.
Competing with three siblings, this fledgling Barn Swallow tries to present the biggest target to food-bearing adults on Horsepen Bayou.
This shot intrigues me with the competing lines of the trees and their own shadows on the white snow
Panoramic view of the northern lights from under the auroral oval, looking west over the bright lights of Scrabster and Thurso
Borusan Otomotiv Motorsport is a Turkish auto racing team that has competed in the World Touring Car Championship. The team was founded in 2008 to compete in the World Touring Car Championship with driver and team principal Ibrahim Okyay
Alana and I are competing for the same job. The boss wants to give us a dictation competition o see who gets the job. While Alana wears an elegant feminine dress, I wear something a bit sexier.
Virtually all British manufacturers of double-deck buses were competing fiercely for the rapidly expanding Hong Kong market in the late seventies. Leyland had planned to build two prototype Titans for the Hong Kong market, both for China Motor Bus Co. Eventually only one was built T41 based on the home market single-door specification TNLXB1RF type, and completed in September 1979, by this stage Leyland had taken the decision to close Park Royal due to poor production which was one Titan a week! This Titan was retained by Leyland for testing and did not enter service with the operator until February 1980. Interesting a second Titan was planned for China Motor Bus which was to be 11-metre with dual doorways, only the underframe was constructed and numbered T63.
Reading Borough Council were the only other operator who were lucky enough to receive their Titans and took delivery of two Titans during 1979 registered YJB 68T (T38) and YJB 69T (T39) H44/25D, these were built to the same specification as the London Transport Titans thus used the same identification code.
I have already mentioned that due to poor production figures at Park Royal that British Leyland had no option to close Park Royal after all outstanding orders were completed meaning that Greater Manchester Transport PTE and West Midlands PTE only received a small percentage of their orders, other operators simply were persuaded to cancel their orders. London Transport demanded that their order for 250 Titans would be completed by June 1980 and that Leyland would find an alternative factory to continue to build the Titan. Leyland agreed a redundancy package with the staff at Park Royal that London Transport's Titans would be delivered on time, the Financial Times reported this cost Leyland between one and two million pounds! Production jumped from one Titan a week to eight Titans a week, resulting in the last London Transport Titan T250 completed three weeks ahead of the deadline. The staff at Park Royal had a vested interest in slowing Titan production down knowing that Leyland would close the factory with a redundancy package and they would walk into a better paid job. I will discuss the search for a new home for the Titan in another post.
While Leyland went through the trauma of the Titan, they had realised in 1978 that they needed a chassis to replace their rear-engined double-deck bus chassis range. Leyland commenced on a project in 1978 coded B45 which would use the more desirable features of the Titan in a chassis which bodybuilders could easy body with normal height or low height bodywork. The B45 was launched in September 1980 as the Olympian, which I will cover once I finish the Titan story.
This official Leyland Vehicles publicity photograph shows the front near side view of the solitary Titan built for China Motor Bus Co, note the sliding side windows, also the large block Leyland name under the windscreen. I have interior photographs of this Titan which show leather covered coach seats, I will post an interior photograph.
Photograph credit: Leyland Vehicles Ltd/Basil Hancock
Bibliography:-
Books: The Best of British Buses No9 Leyland Titans 1945-1984 Alan Townsin
Websites: Bus Lists on The Web (BLOTW)
Vehicle information:-
Operator: China Motor Bus Co
Registration: CD 1213
Fleet number: TC1
Vehicle identification: TNLXB1RF T41
Park Royal build number: T41
Seating: CH43/30F
Engine: 10.45-litre Gardner 6LXB
Gearbox: Five-speed Hydracyclic gearbox with the G2 control system
Factory built at: Park Royal Vehicles Ltd Abbey Road Park Royal London NW10
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Reached in my pockets for a tissue but found my camera instead ! No harm done just a muddy episode.
Both cars from TEAM 18 - Holden ZB Commodores competing at The Bend OTR Sprint meet of the Australian Supercars series. Both cars always look a treat on track.
(1 of 2) Scott Pye in the DeWalt livery, and,
(2 of 2) Mark Winterbottom in the Irwin Tools blue.
The Bend Motorsport Park, Tailem Bend, South Australia, Australia.