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[Rob]

Well it was a cold, very very wet and very windy day at Brooklands today, but still had a good time! Sorry if some photos aren't too good, was almost constantly wiping the lens of my camera dry from the rain. I have larger size copies of all of these if anyone is interested.

Thought i'd start off with a bit of scene setting















Sat in a corner of the car park is this glass sided car sized display case, containing the chassis of the 1936 Mercedes record breaking (can't remember the record, it was fairly obscure from what I do remember) car



In the paddock there were a lot of 1950s/60s/70s era airline liveried vehicles, and these are just three of them. Must admit I have no idea what any of them are, except the middle one which I think is a Bedford CA?



1914 Bugatti



Replica of a 1921 Wolseley Moth, a curious looking little fat cigar shaped racer



Bentley 4 1/2 litre Le Mans



Can't see it too well, but behind the doors is a 1904 Siddeley, the oldest surviving Siddeley



Fairly ugly looking Salmson racer



1900 Peugeot



1910 AC Sociable electric car



A very, very nice Edwardian Napier with fantastic bodywork



1904 Cadillac



The famous Napier Railton record holder





1931 Whitney Straight Duesenberg



Had to get a picture of this miniature Frazer Nash, looked spot on!



Ridley Special remake - the square air intake on the front hasn't been added yet, and presumably never will be



Two of the three 1922 Vauxhall TT's are at Brooklands, this is one of them, but in it's later modified state as a Vauxhall Villiers (after the Villiers supercharger)



Nice model of Percy Lambert's record breaking Darracq



Brough Superior in the motorcycle section. To be honest, I wasn't exactly enthusiastic about the 'bicycles at Brooklands' section, so no photos of that bit!



The first thing you see in the Grand Prix exhibition is these three Aston Martins



1923 Aston Martin Halford special



1923 Aston Martin Razorblade special



A proper local car - a Riley Brooklands



The gorgeous Vauxhall TT racer of 1922



Garage scene featuring an MG



Jowett van



BMC Refueller



Pre-WW2 aircraft refueller

[ukdave2002]

Nice photo's Rob.

Must admit I didn't realise there was so much there.

Dave

[Rob]

Seems to change all the time to be honest - the last two times I went many many years ago as a kid I was slightly dissapointed that there weren't many pre-WW2 racing cars there, but that seems to have changed - photos i've seen on the web from earlier this year show cars not there today such as 'Babs' and a 4wd Miller, both of which i'd have loved to have seen

[buzzy bee]

Hi

I will send you a PM.

Looks like a really fun place, could spend days in there!

Even a Penny Farthing to ride around the track on! hehe

Cheers

Dave

[Rick]

Great photos Rob. The other vans in the photo were a Thames 300E (lhs) and a Bedford HA (rhs). I think Babs usually lives in the small museum at Pendine Sands in South Wales, so perhaps was on temporary display at Brooklands earlier in the year? I certainly saw it at Pendine 3 or 4 years ago, where of course it had its fatal crash and was buried on the beach for many decades.

Some cracking old racers, I think the replica of the Wolseley Moth was erindoors' favourite out of that little lot. The Napier Railton is a mighty impressive beast too though.

RJ
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