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'Close-up views of car/racing car engines' - State Library of Victoria (any guesses about the identity of the other car in last photo?)

 

Negative was swapped this is a Type 57 Bugatti intake and steering box should be on the Right Side.

 

Type 51 Bugatti GP car. Twincam, also has two fillers for the gas tank.

 

Really like the set of headers someone made, stock Type 51 would have them go down and run under the belly pan. The can that feeds oil to the blower is in place, and removed in the other engine shot .

 

Bugatti Type 37

 

Type 35B Bugatti

 

I guess it's a Bugatti type 57 Atlantic

 

I noticed the missing oil can in one pic. We must have had our fair share of Bugatti's in Australia. It looks like a Victorian number plate on the Type 57: UB 862 with the letters VIC down the left side of the plate. The frame above the VIC number plate possibly held a European number plate at one stage?

 

Peter Helck , Geo Ham , and Stefan Marjoram!

 

I thought it looks like real arabic numbers it looks like 1979 which translate in what we call arabic numbers 1969 which is the number under. Plenty of arabic countries to this day use the 2 numbering on their licence plates. Left over from colonialism I guess.

 

Persu Streamliner

 

I think it should face in the other direction.

 

Well, with a calculated drag Cx of 0.22, it's pretty slippery as it is!

 

I think it should be inverted. (The drawing, not the shoe like car.)

 

First photo: 'AMSC Speed Trials' Sept. 14, 1947. Second photo: 'Herb Ford driving a Type 37 Bugatti, AMSC Standing 1/4 Mile' 1946 - both pics by George Thomas, State Library of Victoria (looks like same car and driver in both pics)

 

Same Bugatti and driver at 'VSCC Speed Trials', June 16, 1947 - George Thomas pics; State Library of Victoria

 

^^^^^^^^^^^^ The odd feature on this Bugatti are the later "Big" drum brakes on the front and the early small ones in the back.

 

Morgans: first pic is from the 11th Rob Roy Hill Climb; second pic is from Ballarat, Victoria, air field races; third pic is 'Motorcycles with sidecars racing up a hill with a Morgan 3-wheeler' (taken at Bathurst, NSW, maybe?) All pics by George Thomas; State Library of Victoria

 

Those must be part of the last group of 3 wheelers made. There were 6, I think, made after the war to use up left over parts. They were all shipped to Australia.

 

Slow day here, so one more Morgan pic: blindfolded driver at 'AMSC Gymkhana, Eltham'; George Thomas/State Library of Victoria

 

PIGLET being prepared for VSCC Prescott

 

Great car. The guys in the UK, and Europe, have such great vintage car events. The money grubbing lawyers and insurance folks killed any chance of doing that here in the states.

 

Are you sure ?

Mike

 

I stand corrected. There is ONE.

 

And they do require dual braking and fuel cells

 

Fred, the Miller/Offy guys have been putting on a great low key event for years....even though the cars allowed are rather limited. They love all spectators. They use the track in Milwaukee when it's not being renovated. This year they were at Indy.

 

'People and rural scenes around Victoria' - photographic album relating to the Hearnes family, compiled by Vincent Joseph Hearnes 1903-1986 - State Library of Victoria

 

'Bugatti Type 40 car, belonging to R.C. Thomas - Probably Parramatta, NSW' - State Library of NSW; (I looked up a book on Australian Bugatti's: this car was delivered in October 1928 in London; chassis 40679, engine 576)