
Snetterton late 50s I think...courtesy L.J.Braithwaite.



Posted 21 March 2004 - 20:15
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Posted 21 March 2004 - 21:28
Originally posted by Coogar
I'm only guessing, but might it possibly be the Bobby Baird Emeryson fitted with Duesenberg Straight 8 ? I believe it did appear in this form early in the fifties. However the road car in the background (Jensen ?) suggests late fifties in which case.....????
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Posted 21 March 2004 - 22:22
Originally posted by David McKinney
So - must be the CDL then?
Posted 21 March 2004 - 22:42
Posted 21 March 2004 - 23:33
Originally posted by David Beard
OK, I have to ask......David, what is the CDL?
Looks like him, but if it's late 50s, then I'd say the chap in the picture is a little bit too old to actually be him.Originally posted by Patrick Fletcher
Is that Dirk Bogarde looking on ?
Posted 21 March 2004 - 23:43
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Posted 22 March 2004 - 04:13
Originally posted by Lotus23
This is a long way from my area of expertise (most things are), but the tires look like Dunlop R5's: weren't they an early sixties development?
Just a passing thought...
Posted 22 March 2004 - 04:53
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Posted 22 March 2004 - 12:57
Posted 22 March 2004 - 13:39
Originally posted by David McKinney
David, Richard
Feeling in a provocative mood, I went to bed after posting my CDL suggestion - and now Jean-Maurice has saved me the trouble of digging out an answer to your question![]()
dbw
T51 #51126 is one of those instances of two cars being built from one. Can't remember the exact details, but IIRC it's something to do with the CDL getting a new frame at one stage, and someone building up a replacement 51126 on the rebuilt original frame, while someone else put the original T51 bits into a different frame, and also claimed the 51126 identity
To confuse the picture further, the CDL (or Chorlton Special) has now been rebuilt from its non-Bugatti remains with a replica Bugatti chassis and 2.5 Alta engine, and raced at a VSCC Donington meeting a couple of years ago
Posted 22 March 2004 - 14:07
Posted 02 April 2005 - 17:49
Originally posted by GIGLEUX
CDL means Centaur Developments Ltd, a little firm based in London at the end of 1948, beginning of 1949. with three chaps named James Boothby, the disigner Michael Chorlton and Charles Brookes. The purpose was to built Formula B models and a Formula A (one) car. All I know is that only the F1 was built: in fact it was the Bugatti 51A (1500-8 cyl) that Chorlton raced in 1947-48
(#51126). In 1947 the car was entered by F.O. Cleveland-Harmer. In 1949 the car appeared at least at Jersey and the International Trophy. It was modified in monoplace form.
Excuse the bad quality of the pictures below (photocopies in fact). M.C.Chorlton is on the first pict.![]()
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Posted 15 January 2006 - 15:55
Originally posted by GIGLEUX
CDL means Centaur Developments Ltd, a little firm based in London at the end of 1948, beginning of 1949. with three chaps named James Boothby, the disigner Michael Chorlton and Charles Brookes. The purpose was to built Formula B models and a Formula A (one) car. All I know is that only the F1 was built: in fact it was the Bugatti 51A (1500-8 cyl) that Chorlton raced in 1947-48
(#51126). In 1947 the car was entered by F.O. Cleveland-Harmer. In 1949 the car appeared at least at Jersey and the International Trophy. It was modified in monoplace form.
Excuse the bad quality of the pictures below (photocopies in fact). M.C.Chorlton is on the first pict.![]()
Posted 15 January 2006 - 20:52
Posted 15 January 2006 - 21:11
Originally posted by GIGLEUX
Did it!
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Posted 01 August 2006 - 18:33
Originally posted by Racers Edge
Bugatti T-51 #51126 is still in England and with the same owner for the past 20 years.
I do understand that Charles Dean also claims 51126 that his father built in the 1980's using a NOS Bugatti frame bought from Jack Richards (now dead) that had no official ID on it...
Why Dean claimed that number is still a mystery?
Posted 01 August 2006 - 18:53
Posted 02 August 2006 - 16:34
Originally posted by Paul Parker
Without checking I too was going to mention James Boothby racing a D type and possibly selling the second HWM 1 during the early to mid 1960s. Am I right?
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Posted 03 August 2006 - 13:31
Originally posted by Dutchy
I wonder if that's the same Fred Boothby that my Father bought an ES2 Norton from back in the late 1970s - FB was a captain in the REME at the time.
Posted 03 August 2006 - 13:43
Posted 01 July 2015 - 21:17
You are right , he was an MP - not REME.
Apologies for thread resurrection - Fred Boothby was RMP, Hamish McNinch was REME and Bob Birrell and Peter Everingham were both Royal Corps of Transport (RCT).
I should know - Fred and Hamish built my MGB way back in 1985!