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INSIDE THE PADDOCK
R AC I N G CA R T R A N S P O R T E R S AT W O R K
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DAVID CROSS
with Bjørn Kjer
INSIDE THE PADDOCK
RACING
CAR
TRANSPORTERS
AT
David Cross
with Bjørn Kjer
Foreword by The Earl of March and Kinrara
WORK
CONTENTS
Foreword by The Earl of March and Kinrara ......................................................................................................................................... 10
Acknowledgements.............................................................................................................................................................................................13
Introduction ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................14
Teams and Privateers, Manufacturers and Constructors,
Record Breakers and their Transporters (see list below) ...............................................................................................................18
Proper Name Index ...................................................................................................................................................................386
Manufacturer’s Index............................................................................................................................................................... 390
Transporters Coachbuilder’s Index .......................................................................................................................................391
Abarth
AC Cars
Alfa Romeo
Allard
Anderson, Bob D.W. Racing Enterprises
Anthony, Mike
Aston Martin
Atkins, Tommy High Efficiency Motors
Austro-Daimler
Auto Union
Audi
Automóvil Club Argentino
Belle Vue Garage
Benetton
Bentley
B. Bira and the
White Mouse Stable
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21
22
28
29
30
31
39
40
41
50
52
54
55
56
57
BMC Competition Department Morris Commercial Replica
Service Training Units
BMW
Border Reivers
Borgward
Boulton, Charles
Boyd-Carpenter
Brabham Racing Organisation
SS Bremen
Bridges, David
Bristol LH6L Transporter
BRM - British Racing Motors
Stanley - BRM
Brown, Alan
BRP - British Racing Partnership
Bugatti - Figments of Imagination
Bugatti
Bugatti - Privateers
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71
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76
77
78
79
80
82
85
86
87
92
93
94
98
100
107
Bugatti by Chevrolet
111
Camoradi
112
Campbell, Sir Malcolm
114
Canadair CL-44-D4 Swing-Tail
116
Clarke, David
117
Cobb, John Rhodes
118
Cobra
119
Coburn Engineers Racing
121
Connaught
122
Cooper
123
Crabbe Racing, Colin
129
Crook, Tony
130
Cunningham
131
Deutsch & Bonnet
134
Dobson, Austin and Aitken, Peter 135
Dorset Racing
136
Ecurie Belge, Ecurie Francorchamps
and Equipe Nationale Belge
137
Ecurie Bleue
140
Ecurie Centre Nord and
Roskilde Ring
Ecurie Ecosse and
Merchiston Motors
Ecurie Suisse
Elite, Team
Elva
ERA
Eyston, Captain George
Farman, Henri
Fast, Jon
Ferrari
Fittipaldi
Fitzwilliam Racing Team
Flather, Denis
Fletcher, Rivers
Flockhart, Ron
Ford Advanced Vehicles
Gabriel, Fernand
Gardner, Goldie
Gerard, Bob
Gilby Engineering
Gordini
Gordini “Look-Alike”
Gould, Horace
Grandsire, Henri
Hawthorn, Mike
Hesketh Racing
Holbein, Hermann
Holden Racing Team
Honda
Horsfall, St. John “Jock”
Howe, Earl
HWM - Hersham and
Walton Motors
Jackson, R. R.
Kieft
Kohlrausch, Robert
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143
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157
161
165
166
167
168
187
188
189
190
194
195
196
197
198
200
201
202
203
204
205
206
207
208
210
212
214
215
216
219
220
Lancia
Legarth, Jens Christian
Lola
Lotus
Lumsden, Peter and
Sargent, Peter
Mallock
Mann, Alan
Mann, Stanley Racing Team
Maranello
March
Marsh, Tony
Maserati
Matra
Mayhew, Mark
Mazda
McLaren
Mercedes-Benz
Mercedes-Benz Post War
Mercedes-Benz - ‘Blue Wonder’
Mercedes-Benz
A Family Reunion in 2009
Morgan
Moser, Silvio
Moss, Stirling
MRP - Midland Racing Partnership
Nacional Pescara
Naylor, Brian - JBW Motors
Nielsen, Børge
Nuvolari, Tazio
Parker, Don
Parnell
Pegaso
Penske
Platé, Enrico
Poore, Dennis
Porsche
Protheroe, Dick
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225
226
227
234
235
237
239
240
241
242
243
252
254
255
256
257
269
276
280
284
286
287
288
291
292
293
294
295
296
298
301
302
303
310
320
Rover-BRM
Ruesch, Hans
Salmon, Mike
Scampolo
Scarab
Scuderias:
Automobilistica
Eugenio Castellotti
Centro-Sud
Milan
Serenissima
Subalpina
Siffert, Jo
Silver City Airways
Straight, Whitney
Sunbeam
Surtees, John
Talbot-Darracq
Twaites, Trevor
Tyrer, Gilbert
Tyrrell Racing Organisation
Vanwall
Vestey, Sir Paul
Wake, Albert
Walker, Rob Racing Team
Western Australian
Racing Museum
Westley, Terry
Whitehead, Peter and Graham
Whitehouse, Bill
Williams, Frank
Willment, John
Woolfe, John Racing
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322
323
324
325
General Paddock Scenes
365
Mike Sells Transporter Drawings
373
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327
328
329
331
334
335
339
340
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345
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350
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U N T E R N E H M E N S A RC H I V
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TEAMS AND PRIVATEERS, MANUFACTURERS AND
CONSTRUCTORS, RECORD BREAKERS AND THEIR TRANSPORTERS
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acing 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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DOUG NYE
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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S P I T Z L E Y Z AG A R I C O L L E C T I O N
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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DOUG NYE
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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nderson 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.
DOUG NYE
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.
BOB ANDERSON
D.W. RACING
ENTERPRISES
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M RS . ELI ZA BET H COOPER
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 S T O N M A RT I N H E R I TAG E T RU S T
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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AUSTRODAIMLER
he 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.
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GERHARD
Two Austro-Daimler cars with the
1100cc Sascha being transported in
Wiener-Neustadt in 1922.
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The following two photographs taken in Wiener-Neustadt in 1922/1923, reveal the earliest purpose-built
racing car transporter.
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
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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.
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open truck and the old superstructure was then used as a tool shed for an Ingolstadt
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BUGATTI
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acing 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.
J U L I U S K RU TA A RC H I V E S
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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INSIDE THE PADDOCK
R AC I N G CA R T R A N S P O R T E R S AT W O R K
DAVID CROSS
with Bjørn Kjer
Foreword by the Earl of March and Kinrara
or some years, David Cross has been intrigued by the many ways that racing cars
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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.
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David Cross with Bjørn Kjer
978-1-85443-254-4
November 2011
297mm x 229mm 392 pages
Hard cover with dust jacket
80 color and 370 black and white
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