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[kevthedrummer]

Hello all. I've always been intrigued by Bob Anderson but have managed to find very little info on him. Do any of you have any recollections/memories of him. I've always thought he was one of F1's forgotten men. The little info I have managed to find has mainly related to his accident at Silverstone. I seem to remember Louis Stanley claiming that the ambulance driver at Silverstone was also expected to drive the fire engine! I also read somewhere that Anderson started his career racing bikes. Anyway, I think it's important to remember drivers such as Bob who helped contribute to our sport's rich history.

[ian senior]

Originally posted by kevthedrummer
Hello all. I've always been intrigued by Bob Anderson but have managed to find very little info on him. Do any of you have any recollections/memories of him. I've always thought he was one of F1's forgotten men. The little info I have managed to find has mainly related to his accident at Silverstone. I seem to remember Louis Stanley claiming that the ambulance driver at Silverstone was also expected to drive the fire engine! I also read somewhere that Anderson started his career racing bikes. Anyway, I think it's important to remember drivers such as Bob who helped contribute to our sport's rich history.

Copuldn't agree more, Kev. Do a search on here and you'll find a fair bit of stuff about Bob, so I won't bother repeating the gist of it here. There are quite a few of us around here who have a lot of time for him (me especially).

[David Shaw]

I only know of what I have read of him in the past few years. Driving to race meetings with the BT11 on the back of a Volkswagen Pickup under a tarpaulin.

And I recall he made a blinding start at Monaco in '66, up to 4th by St. Devote, but he didn't make an oversubscribed grid the next year.

[kevthedrummer]

Cheers Ian. I'm enjoying myself having a browse through other comments about him on the forum. Of course, performing a search would have been the logical thing to do in the first place, but it's still early!

[Bjorn Kjer]

I have an article with a couple of nice pics , also the VW. Bjørn

[Bjorn Kjer]

Hello , I also have a nice short history from the booklet "Motor Racing Team Colours & Markings.

Regards Bjørn

[Bjorn Kjer]

Hello Kev ,I just "fell" over an old thread here ,DW Racing Enterprises-Bob Anderson.
How do I find old ones , threads that is?
Also sutton Images has a couple of good pics.
Regards Bjørn

[Terry Walker]

One of the things that struck me about Bob Anderson was that despite running elderly machinery he was clearly a fine and competitive driver. Why did no F1 team pick him up? Perhaps he was not quite WC material, but he would have at the very least been a very good No 2.

[Keir]

There is a great pic of a shirtless Bob loading his car on the "redoubtable VW transporter", it's what racing should really be about !!

[Bjorn Kjer]

Sorry Keir ,I dont get your hint! Bjørn Kjer

[kevthedrummer]

Just had a look at the Sutton images. Considering buying one of them but I can't make my mind up. I don't know how to find old threads either. No doubt there's an explanation on here somewhere.

[Allen Brown]

To find old threads, use the Search BB link in the top right corner.

Allen

[Bjorn Kjer]

Thanks ,tried,not bad. Regards Bjørn

[kevthedrummer]

Thanks Allen.

[thomaskomm]

Hellol, Bob drove with an FPF Climax 2,7 ltr. engine in the season 66, was this the old 2,5 ltr. 4 cylindre and 240 HP F1 engine from 1960? In which way could he developed the engine. I´m very astonish if this was really the 4 cyl. engine!

Thomas

[Bjorn Kjer]

It was! (enlarged 2,5). Bjørn

[David Shaw]

Yes, this was definitely the 4 cylinder Climax FPF. An FPF was also used in the original F1 Eagle (TG101) in 1966 prior to the V12 Weslake being ready.

[thomaskomm]

wow unbelievable!! A engine six or seven years old! How many HP had this engine? What is the history after the f1 since 1960? The climax engines were really benefits for the Motorsport. How much cost this engine back in the siexties? OH man really good story..

Thomas

[David Shaw]

I believe that TG101 last F1 race was in the Canadian GP in 1969 driven by Al Pease, still with the FPF Climax, which was by then 10 years old.

Apparently Repco in Australia got hold of the patterns after Coventry-Climax had finished producing them, as the FPF was the mainstay engine of Australia's Gold Star Series until the Repco V8 was introduced in into the Gold Star in 1967. The V8 was found to be not as reliable in 2.5 litre form as it was in F1, and subsequently an FPF powered car won the Gold Star in 1967.

[Wolf]

Re. 2.5l engines in 3l formula, even Ferrari (one loaned to Parnelli, and driven by Baghetti in '66 Italian GP) resorted to it with Dino 246 engine, IIRC.

[Bjorn Kjer]

To kevthedrummer and thomaskomm : I was advised to search the TNF BB ! Do that! Its good.
Go for Coventry Climax FPF and/or Bob Anderson and you get something on both! Or use your imagination and you will keep on finding. Its fun and very learning. Regards Bjørn.
PS :Nothing wrong in opening new threads,after a couple of years ,more info , new people , but I believe we should try to keep these threads on track,that is this one is for Bob Anderson.
Regards and good luck hunting, regards Bjørn.
PS2 Just printed another 12 pages on Bob, gotta read them now!

[Bjorn Kjer]

To kevthedrummer and thomaskomm : I was advised to search the TNF BB ! Do that! Its good.
Go for Coventry Climax FPF and/or Bob Anderson and you get something on both! Or use your imagination and you will keep on finding. Its fun and very learning. Regards Bjørn.
PS :Nothing wrong in opening new threads,after a couple of years ,more info , new people , but I believe we should try to keep these threads on track,that is this one is for Bob Anderson.
Regards and good luck hunting, regards Bjørn.
PS2 Just printed another 12 pages on Bob, gotta read them now!

[Bjorn Kjer]

R.H.F.(Bob)Anderson motorcycle results :

1958 500cc TT2 B6 WC 8
1958 350cc TT8 I4 S2 WC 5
1959 500cc TTR B6 WC15
1959 350cc TT5 F4 WC 9
1960 125cc TT5 WC 9
1960 250cc TTR WC 0
1960 350cc TT6 NL3 U4 I5 WC 5
1960 500cc IR WC 0

125/250 = M.Z.
350/500 = Norton

Bjørn

[Bjorn Kjer]

Hello , found a bit more on Bob on the TNF thread "Anyone heard of an Alan Brodie". Bjørn

[Bjorn Kjer]

Please would Keir or someone else tell me where to get that Bob Anderson picture from
"the redoubtable VW transporter"????????????????
Regards Bjørn

[Tomas Karlsson]

In "Brabham the Grand Prix cars" by Alan Henry (Hazleton Publishing 1985) the photo is published underneath a photo of the Brabham transporter. I have a copy of the book

It's a photo you won't forget once you have seen it. It's the complete opposite to todays F1 paddocks.

[Macca]

There's an article in the September 1966 'Motor Sport' about GP privateers, with a picture of the VW.

There was also a '20 questions to Bob Anderson' in the June 1967 'Motor Racing'.

Pete Lovely was another who used a pick-up truck, for his Lotus 49 in 1969 - there are pictures in Michael Oliver's book.


Paul M

[Bjorn Kjer]

I think its a bear!(Bjørn in Danish is transl.:Bear)

Thanks to Tomas for the tip.

Thanks to Paul : I wonder if "your" article from MS1966 is the same as October 2002 (MS) ?
I believe in an older Bob Anderson thread(2002) Doug Nye posted the 20 qs from Motor Racing
Have seen Lovely Vws he had of late more than one, but started out with the old version with 2 part front window.

Thanks to all .

Bjørn

PS. Kev , are you still here?

[richie]

Hellol, Bob drove with an FPF Climax 2,7 ltr. engine in the season 66, was this the old 2,5 ltr. 4 cylindre and 240 HP F1 engine from 1960? In which way could he developed the engine. I´m very astonish if this was really the 4 cyl. engine!

Thomas

Not sure where this clip fits in and under which of 4 different threads for Bob but here goes! Winning at Vallelunga Grand Prix 1963

http://www.britishpa...rd.php?id=63167

[taylov]

Not sure where this clip fits in and under which of 4 different threads for Bob but here goes! Winning at Vallelunga Grand Prix 1963

http://www.britishpa...rd.php?id=63167

I think the Pathe date is wrong. It should be 19th May according to "Long forgotten races" by Chris Ellard.

Imagine, a F1 race with a podium of Anderson, de Beaufort and Ian Raby. Great.

Tony