INSIDE THE PADDOCKR A C I N G C A R T R A N S P O R T E R S A T W O R K

with Bjørn KjerDAVID CROSS

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David Crosswith Bjørn Kjer

Foreword by The Earl of March and Kinrara

INSIDE THE PADDOCKR A C I N G C A R T R A N S P O R T E R S A T W O R K

CONTENTS

Foreword by The Earl of March and Kinrara ......................................................................................................................................... 10Acknowledgements .............................................................................................................................................................................................13Introduction ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................14Tea ms and Privateers, Manufacturers and Constructors,

Record Breakers and their Transporters (see list below) ...............................................................................................................18Proper Name Index ...................................................................................................................................................................386Manufacturer’s Index ............................................................................................................................................................... 390Transporters Coachbuilder’s Index .......................................................................................................................................391

Abarth 20 AC Cars 21Alfa Romeo 22 Allard 28A nderson, Bob -

D.W. Racing Enterprises 29Anthony, Mike 30Aston Martin 31Atkins, Tommy - High Efficiency Motors 39Austro-Daimler 40Auto Union 41Audi 50Automóvil Club Argentino 52Belle Vue Garage 54Benetton 55Bentley 56B. Bira and the White Mouse Stable 57

B MC Competition Department - Morris Commercial Replica 66 Service Training Units 71

BMW 74 Border Reivers 76Borgward 77Boulton, Charles 78Boyd-Carpenter 79Brabham Racing Organisation 80SS Bremen 82Bridges, David 85Bristol LH6L Transporter 86BRM - British Racing Motors 87Stanley - BRM 92Brown, Alan 93BRP - British Racing Partnership 94Bugatti - Figments of Imagination 98Bugatti 100Bugatti - Privateers 107

Bugatti by Chevrolet 111Camoradi 112 Campbell, Sir Malcolm 114Canadair CL-44-D4 Swing-Tail 116Clarke, David 117Cobb, John Rhodes 118Cobra 119 Coburn Engineers Racing 121Connaught 122Cooper 123Crabbe Racing, Colin 129Crook, Tony 130Cunningham 131Deutsch & Bonnet 134Dobson, Austin and Aitken, Peter 135Dorset Racing 136E curie Belge, Ecurie Francorchamps

and Equipe Nationale Belge 137Ecurie Bleue 140

Ecurie Centre Nord and Roskilde Ring 141Ecurie Ecosse and Merchiston Motors 143Ecurie Suisse 155Elite, Team 156Elva 157ERA 161Eyston, Captain George 165Farman, Henri 166Fast, Jon 167Ferrari 168Fittipaldi 187Fitzwilliam Racing Team 188Flather, Denis 189Fletcher, Rivers 190Flockhart, Ron 194Ford Advanced Vehicles 195Gabriel, Fernand 196Gardner, Goldie 197Gerard, Bob 198Gilby Engineering 200Gordini 201Gordini “Look-Alike” 202Gould, Horace 203Grandsire, Henri 204H awthorn, Mike 205Hesketh Racing 206Holbein, Hermann 207Holden Racing Team 208Honda 210H orsfall, St. John “Jock” 212Howe, Earl 214HW M - Hersham and

Walton Motors 215Jackson, R. R. 216Kieft 219Kohlrausch, Robert 220

Lancia 222Legarth, Jens Christian 225Lola 226Lotus 227Lum sden, Peter and

Sargent, Peter 234Mallock 235Mann, Alan 237Mann, Stanley Racing Team 239 Maranello 240March 241 Marsh, Tony 242Maserati 243Matra 252Mayhew, Mark 254Mazda 255McLaren 256Mercedes-Benz 257Mercedes-Benz Post War 269 Mercedes-Benz - ‘Blue Wonder’ 276 Mercedes-Benz A Family Reunion in 2009 280 Morgan 284Moser, Silvio 286Moss, Stirling 287MRP - Midland Racing Partnership 288Nacional Pescara 291Naylor, Brian - JBW Motors 292Nielsen, Børge 293Nuvolari, Tazio 294Parker, Don 295Parnell 296Pegaso 298Penske 301Platé, Enrico 302Poore, Dennis 303Porsche 310Protheroe, Dick 320

Rover-BRM 321 Ruesch, Hans 322Salmon, Mike 323Scampolo 324Scarab 325 Scuderias: Automobilistica Eugenio Castellotti 326 Centro-Sud 327 Milan 328 Serenissima 329 Subalpina 331Siffert, Jo 334Silver City Airways 335Straight, Whitney 339Sunbeam 340Surtees, John 343Talbot-Darracq 344Twaites, Trevor 345Tyrer, Gilbert 346Tyrrell Racing Organisation 347Vanwall 350Vestey, Sir Paul 352Wake, Albert 354Walker, Rob Racing Team 355Western Australian Racing Museum 356Westley, Terry 357Whitehead, Peter and Graham 358Whitehouse, Bill 359Williams, Frank 360Willment, John 362Woolfe, John Racing 364

General Paddock Scenes 365

Mike Sells Transporter Drawings 373

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TEAMS AND PRIVATEERS, MANUFACTURERS AND CONSTRUCTORS, RECORD BREAKERS AND THEIR TRANSPORTERS

Racing car transporters include any contrivance which moves a racing car to its required destination. This may be a vehicle, train, aeroplane, ship or just plain pushing or pulling by men. The ensuing pages show all these methods and help demonstrate that transport in motorsport, whether local or international,

is an undertaking of immense importance for all competitors and a colossal responsibility for those charged with conveying race cars. Images are almost wholly confined to Europe, the cradle of motorsport.

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The atmosphere in the paddock at the British GP in 1951 was noticeably different from modern race meetings held at Silverstone today, sixty years later. Transporters and support vehicles were lined up behind the pits straight which at that time was after Abbey Curve and before Woodcote Corner. Canvas sheets protected the users of both pits and grandstands from the worst of any inclement weather and there were noticeably fewer catering [and probably toilet] facilities than today. Excitement must have mounted as spectators wandered the paddock. From right to left, a red Austin Three Way 25cwt van from Vigzol Oil, Vandervell’s Austin K6/ZB ex-RAF WWII 6x4 transporter/workshop, the front of an Austin, an Austin K lorry from Regent Oil, another Austin Three Way 25cwt van from Ferodo, the rear end of an Austin van from Lodge, yet a third Austin Three Way 25cwt van from Pirelli, a saloon car, Alfa Romeo’s red support lorry and lastly, the Alfa Romeo 500 transporters which show that they were painted grey and not red.

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The smaller vehicle to the left of the large 1931 Büssing NAG type lorry [top left] was a Fiat 614 transporter from Alfa Romeo, supporting Scuderia Ferrari. The small tanker on the far right of the picture has the Alfa name on the side, perhaps carrying special oil or fuel for team cars. Enzo Ferrari wearing a suit, stood squarely with his back to the camera, hands clasped, surrounded by the Alfa Type 8C-2300 Tipo A cars which were being run by the Scuderia Ferrari team at the Italian GP at Monza in 1931.

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Behind the four Alfa Romeo 158s of Fangio, Farina, Fagioli and Parnell lay the Alfa 900 support vehicle and one of the team’s two grey Alfa 500 transporters. Despite Fangio retiring, blue skies at Silverstone heralded a brilliant 1/ 2/ 3 victory for Alfa Romeo in the 1950 British GP.

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BOB ANDERSON D.W. RACING ENTERPRISES

Anderson participated in F1 under the name of D. W. Racing Enterprises and used this 1959-registered VW open Type T1 [with split windscreen] to transport his Brabham car. They were seen here at the 1965

Dutch GP. Known sometimes as the VW Group T Platform, the transporter seemed only just long enough for its load and left little room for spares.

Anderson began his racing career on two wheels but after an accident, switched to car racing in 1961, entering the world of F1 two years later. His best result was to finish third in the 1964 Austrian GP. He was killed in 1967 practising at Silverstone.

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Aston Martin DBR1/4 is pushed vigorously onto the Goodwood scrutineering bay from the new David Brown Transporter by mechanic Alan Woods, on the left.

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A Bedford C-Type tractor unit, possibly rented, and trailer left the factory at Feltham in April 1963 en route for the Le Mans trials. The lower deck carried two DP 214 cars whilst the re-vamped 212 sits on top, the later 215 not being ready for the trials.

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The Austro-Daimler Engine Society was founded in 1899 and three years later, Paul Daimler and Ferdinand Porsche continued to develop the company which, in 1906 was re-named Austro-Daimler. Sponsored by

Count Alexander ‘Sascha’ Kolowrat-Kratowsky in 1922, Porsche designed the 1100cc Sascha racing car which, incidentally, provided Alfred Neubauer with his first entry into a motor race. Porsche left the company in 1923 and by 1934, Austro-Daimler had become part of the Steyr-Daimler-Puch corporation.

The following two photographs taken in Wiener-Neustadt in 1922/1923, reveal the earliest purpose-built racing car transporter.

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Two Austro-Daimler cars with the 1100cc Sascha being transported in Wiener-Neustadt in 1922.

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The Sascha was securely mounted on the back of the Austro-Daimler transporter outside their Wiener-Neustadt factory, in preparation for the beach races in Fano, an island off the west coast of Denmark.

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Tazio Nuvolari posed on the race track in front of the Büssing transporter

at Monza. the 1920s to 1957 and this Magirus-Deutz Type S 3500 transporter with a removal van-type body by Kässbohrer was used for transport to Hochenheim in April 1955.

open truck and the old superstructure was then used as a tool shed for an Ingolstadt

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BUGATTI Racing the thoroughbred Bugatti became legendary after the introduction of the Type 35 Grand Prix car in 1924. It was unusual for racing cars to be put into production but that is exactly what engineer and

businessman Ettore Bugatti did. The marque became a magnet to wealthy young men and many raced the cars enthusiastically as privateers in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1926, Bugatti claimed no fewer than 501 race victories. The number of Type 35 victories has never been equalled by any other racing car and of course, such prowess was instrumental in selling his road cars.

Privateers made their own varied transport arrangements but the Bugatti works team would have used both Saurer and possibly Berliet transporters, as well as having their cars driven direct to circuits.

In 1920, the Bugatti works team brought the 16 valve Brescia cars of de Vizcaya, Baccoli and Friderich to Le Mans. The lorry on the right is probably an early 1913-1915 Saurer, although there are some indications that it could be the later A-Type, 4cyl petrol engine with 30bhp.

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For some years, David Cross has been intrigued by the many ways that racing cars

guidance or literature on what appeared to be an important facet of motorsport.

He decided to remedy this omission and his detailed research has resulted in the

publication of this unique book.

Inside the Paddock - Racing Car Transporters at Work, contains nearly 550 images, many

unpublished hitherto, which are enhanced and embellished by well-researched and

informative captions. This is a remarkable history of the transport of racing cars

revealed in a picturesque manner.

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INSIDE THE PADDOCKR A C I N G C A R T R A N S P O R T E R S A T W O R K

with Bjørn KjerDAVID CROSS

Foreword by the Earl of March and Kinrara

Dalton Watson Fine BooksPublishers: Glyn and Jean MorrisDeer!eld, Illinois 60015 USA www.daltonwatson.comTelephone: +1 847 945 0568 email: info@daltonwatson.com

AUTHORS David Cross with Bjørn Kjer

ISBN 978-1-85443-254-4

PUBLICATION DATE November 2011

PAGE SIZE 297mm x 229mm 392 pages

Hard cover with dust jacket

PHOTOGRAPHS 80 color and 370 black and white

PRICE US$89/£59