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[Gary C]

Lads, I'm trying to source the entry list and results for the sportscar race at Silverstone on 17th July 1954. I have three unidentified negatives which I think are from this race.
I have already tried here but I THINK it's incomplete:

https://www.racingsp...07-17-6641.html as I have a pic of a Lotus with race number 26 but I can't see any Lotus on that entry list. All of my images are taken in the paddock. Thanks indeed for any help.

[Tim Murray]

Lots of Lotuses in the 1.5 litre race, but none of them #26.

http://www.wsrp.cz/intgb1954.html#6

[Gary C]

Have just enlarged the Lotus out and it's registration number is MT 100, does that help?

[Gary C]

....unless my pictures were taken with old race numbers on the cars before they were changed for this race??

[Gary C]

Plus....on enlarging the Lotus image even more, there looks like an entrants' name on the side of the cockpit, partially obscured by spectators, which reads ---LOR & CRAW--- which I'm thinking MAY be 'Taylor & Crawford'??

[bradbury west]

Gary, MT 100 is a well known Lotus 15 driven  in period, afaik,  by Mike Taylor, of the no doubt eponymous Taylor and Crawley with success. I believe this is the car which  Robert Brooks raced to win a race at a very early (first?) Revival, the one where the car had the rear clam shell bodywork flapping in the breeze like an airbrake as he held off his very close competitor. Stuff that sticks in your memory, nostalgia I suppose. Thinking back to a conversation with someone whose name eludes me without digging into notes somewhere here, I think Angus Clydesdale , later the Duke of …., raced it and it became the Inter Tech GT with some ungainly hardtop/roof on it , something to do with  their steering wheel firm.

Exits left, bewildered

Roger Lund.

[Gary C]

Ah...so it's Taylor & CrawLEY then.

[Tim Murray]

Here’s Innes Ireland racing the Taylor & Crawley Lotus 15 at Brands in 1960:



Possibly the MT100 registration was used on earlier T & C cars, but 1954 is too early for a Lotus 15, and almost certainly too early for Mike Taylor too. It might help if you actually posted the photo, Gary.

[Gary C]

Tim, have sent you a DM.

[Tim Murray]

Here’s Gary’s photo:



Definitely the Fifteen, so has to be 1959 at the earliest, I think. Mike Taylor had run an Eleven the previous year.

[Gary C]

Excellent, thanks Tim.

[Rupertlt1]

Ran #26 at the Tourist Trophy, 1959:

 

https://www.racingsp...1959-09-05.html

 

But not the same car or colour?

 

https://library.revs...goodwood/433200

 

RGDS RLT

Edited by Rupertlt1, 22 December 2022 - 14:08.

[Rupertlt1]

The Lotus 15 thought to be sold to Peter Cottrell of Pontypridd by June 1961. Possibly re-registered NOY 1?

 

See this entry re Castel Farm (and thread): https://forums.autos...k/#entry9519658

 

See also: https://forums.autos...54-mike-taylor/

 

As you can see Mike Taylor had a big shunt at the Belgian GP, Spa, 19 June 1960. So the above pic likely prior to that time, in a window 1959-mid 1960 (but possibly later with another driver)?

 

RGDS RLT

Edited by Rupertlt1, 22 December 2022 - 19:46.

[Porsche718]

Number 26 Lotus 15 ran in the International Sports Car Race at Silverstone on 16th July 1960.

 

It was driven by Mike McKee. Racing Sports Cars has Taylor & Crawley as the entrant but the programme has it entered by Stirling Moss Ltd to be driven by Jack Sears.

 

My programme has that crossed out and handwritten "McKee"

[Rupertlt1]

#26 plainly seen in this pic at Silverstone, MT 100, 16th July 1960:

 

https://library.revs...verstone/383193

 

RGDS RLT

Edited by Rupertlt1, 23 December 2022 - 07:45.