A couple of pictures

[Steve kay]

   
   
A non motoring mate today turned up for outdoor coffee with a few photographs. Before the drinks froze there was scrutiny of snaps, some cars and location easily identifiable, some interesting enigmas. Of these two, I suspect the Ulster and its crew can be immediately identified by forum members. The other car was not built at Longbridge. My immediate thought was that it might be French and possibly steam, but what do others think?

[Bill Sheehan]

Steve - you are correct that the Ulster is very well known, even here in Oz.  But would suggest that the driver in the photo had a better power to weight ration than one owner I recall.  Great photos,  Cheers,  Bill in Oz

[Robert Foreman]

Steve, 
 the second car is a 1903 Gobron Brillie the first car to do 100mph. It competed in the Gordon Bennett races and the 1906/7 Grand Prixs.

[Steve kay]

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Thank you Robert. Of course if it was a head on view it would have been quickly identifiable as the record breaking Gobron Brillie with its sharp nose as pioneering aerodynamics. The driver who first reached 100 mph was Louis Rigolly, who may be at the wheel. Gobron Brillie remain known perhaps not only for the record breaking but their highly unusual engine design. The car pictured had four cylinders but being horizontally opposed, eight pistons. One might speculate that the car sounds nothing like a Deltic. No one has yet identified the Ulster, described as 1932 and painted orange but otherwise unknown to DVLA since 1999.

[dickie65]

GW 82 was at Beaulieu a few years ago, A Works TT car. My 65 was parked next to it on the hardstanding outside the Museum.
As far as I am aware it was raced hard in the for most of its life and was known as the Blood Orange Ulster TT
I won the first 750 Formula Race driven by Charles Bulmer
Mike Eyres used to own it as well as a Grasshopper and Speedy

https://i.postimg.cc/Y0tYtgbB/1973-Mike-...-Johns.jpg

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Just an add on

https://austinharris.co.uk/photo/1936-lc...klands/153

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https://austinharris.co.uk/photo/cars-li...rs-day/121

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https://austinharris.co.uk/photo/1932-jc...trials/103

Graham Beckitt could be the current owner of GW 82

[Mike Costigan]

I think Graham's car is the ex-Gahagan GH 23.

[Steve Jones]

It is.

Steve

[geoffharrison]

Keith Dixon owned and raced GW82 in 1959/60 750 formula events until he rolled it . He subsequently sold the car  
to Mike Eyre who then rebuilt it to a better (?) than new appearance than it probably left the factory in - why do people do this !
I don't know if it still has the original engine as this was canibalised by Keith Dixon for use in the Worden and DEB 
750 cars .

[Rogerfrench]

The original Blood Orange engine was blown, and replaced by an unblown Ulster engine for 750F. At the time it was owned, I think, by Tom Lush, but was in the care of Holly Birkett when Charles Bulmer drove it.
I understood that the new body was as a result of a misunderstanding. The idea was to repair the original, but instead it was cut up and used as a model for the new one.
All of the above is from memory, so you can choose the size of the pinch of salt you take when reading it!

[Charles P]

I understood that the new body was as a result of a misunderstanding. The idea was to repair the original, but instead it was cut up and used as a model for the new one.

I heard that story in relation to the John Miles Super Sports rebuild.
One of them is probably true.

c