The Cooper-Bristol T20/25, also known as the Cooper Mk.1, is a sports car made by British manufacturer Cooper Cars in 1952. It is based on the chassis of the Cooper T20 Formula 2 car, but with enclosed wheels. It used the same 2-liter, 6-cylinder, Bristol engine as the T20. [1] [2] [3] [4]
The Mini is a two-door compact city car that was produced by the British Motor Corporation (BMC) and its successors from 1959 until 2000. The original Mini is considered an icon of 1960s British popular culture. Its space-saving transverse engine and front-wheel drive layout – allowing 80% of the area of the car's floorpan to be used for passengers and luggage – influenced a generation of car makers. In 1999, the Mini was voted the second-most influential car of the 20th century, behind the Ford Model T, and ahead of the Citroën DS and Volkswagen Beetle. The front-wheel-drive, transverse-engine layout of the Mini was copied for other "supermini" designs including the Honda N360 (1967), Nissan Cherry (1970), and Fiat 127 (1971). The layout was also adapted for larger subcompact designs.
The Bristol Type 170 Freighter is a British twin-engine aircraft designed and built by the Bristol Aeroplane Company as both a freighter and airliner. Its best known use was as an air ferry to carry cars and their passengers over relatively short distances. A passenger-only version was also produced, known as the Wayfarer.
The Bristol Proteus was the Bristol Engine Company's first mass-produced gas turbine engine design, a turboprop that delivered just over 4,000 hp (3,000 kW). The Proteus was a reverse-flow gas turbine. Because the second turbine drove no compressor stages, but only the propeller, this engine was classified as a free-turbine. It powered the Bristol Britannia airliner, small naval patrol craft, hovercraft and electrical generating sets. It was also used to power a land-speed record car, the Bluebird-Proteus CN7. After the merger of Bristol with Armstrong Siddeley the engine became the Bristol Siddeley Proteus, and later the Rolls-Royce Proteus. The Proteus was to have been superseded by the Bristol Orion which would have given a Britannia a 75% increase in power for cruising faster.
The Rolls-Royce Olympus was the world's second two-spool axial-flow turbojet aircraft engine design, first run in May 1950 and preceded only by the Pratt & Whitney J57, first-run in January 1950. It is best known as the powerplant of the Avro Vulcan and later models in the Concorde SST.
Coventry Climax was a British forklift truck, fire pump, racing, and other specialty engine manufacturer.
John David Barber was a racing driver from England. Before his racing career he was a fish merchant in London.
Hewland is a British engineering company, founded in 1957 by Mike Hewland, which specialises in racing-car gearboxes. Hewland currently employ 130 people at their Maidenhead facility and have diversified into a variety of markets being particularly successful in electric vehicle transmission supply.
Mini is a British automotive marque founded in 1969, owned by German automotive company BMW since 2000, and used by them for a range of small cars assembled in England and Holland. The word Mini has been used in car model names since 1959, and in 1969 it became a marque in its own right when the name "Mini" replaced the separate "Austin Mini" and "Morris Mini" car model names. BMW acquired the marque in 1994 when it bought Rover Group, which owned Mini, among other brands.
The 1949 Tube Stock was composed of ninety-one cars built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company in Smethwick, England. These cars were identical to the earlier 1938 stock with which they were used.
The 2nd Cornwall MRC Formula 1 Race was a motor race, run to Formula One rules, held on 2 August 1954 at the Davidstow Circuit, Cornwall. The race was to be run over 30 laps of the little circuit, but this was reduced to 20 laps due to the bad weather. The race was won by British driver John Coombs in a Lotus Mk VIII.
The Sunbeam-Talbot 90 is an automobile which was produced and built by Sunbeam-Talbot from 1948 to 1954 and continued as the Sunbeam Mk III from 1954 to 1957.
Davidstow Circuit is a disused motor racing circuit and airfield built in Cornwall, in the United Kingdom. The circuit was built on the site of a World War II RAF Coastal Command base, RAF Davidstow Moor, opened in 1942. Davidstow circuit opened in 1952, and held three Formula 1 races between 1954 and 1955. The circuit hosted its last race in 1955, and was one of many of Britain's airfields to be transformed into motor racing venues. Davidstow circuit is notable for the first victory in a Formula One race by a Lotus.
The Cooper Mark IV was a Formula Three and Formula Two racing car designed and built by the Cooper Car Company at Surbiton, Surrey, England, in 1950.
The Mini Hatch, also known as Mini Cooper, Mini One, or simply the Mini, is a three-door or five door hatchback first introduced in early 2000 by German automotive company BMW under the Mini marque. The second generation was launched in 2006 and the third in 2014. A convertible version was introduced in 2004, with the second generation following in 2008.
The Cooper-Bristol, formally called the Cooper Mk.I or the Cooper T20, is a Formula 2 racing car, built, designed, and developed by British manufacturer Cooper Cars in 1952.
The Cooper T25 is a sports car, designed, developed and built by Cooper Cars for sports car racing competition in 1953. It had humble beginnings; starting out in life as a Cooper-Bristol Mk.1, like its predecessor, the Cooper-Bristol T20/25. It found modest success, winning 18 out of the 80 races it entered between 1953 and 1955, including 2 class victories, and scored 33 podium finishes and one pole position over that same period of time. Like its predecessor, it was powered by the same 2-liter, 6-cylinder, Bristol engine.
The Cooper T23, formally called the Cooper Mk.II, is a Formula 2 racing car, built, designed, and developed by British manufacturer Cooper Cars in 1953. It also competed in Formula One, in 9 Grand Prix between 1953 and 1956. It was powered mainly powered by the 2-liter engine from Bristol, a six-cylinder, but also used a 2-liter Alta L-4 engine, which was used by Stirling Moss.
The Cooper Mk.VIII is a Formula 3 car built by British manufacturer Cooper Cars in 1954. It came in three different versions. The first was the Cooper T31; which featured a curved tubular chassis, a revised transmission housing, a central scuttle tank, a "curled-leaf" spring, and a 500 cc (31 cu in) JA Prestwich Industries (JAP) single-cylinder engine. The second version was the Cooper T32; which featured an elongated chassis and body, and a larger and more powerful 1,100 cc (67 cu in) OHV V-2 engine. The third and final iteration was the Cooper T28; which was a streamliner designed for setting speed records.
The Cooper T49 , also known as the Cooper Monaco T49, or the Cooper T49 Monaco, is a lightweight sports racing car, designed, developed and built by the British manufacturer Cooper, in 1959. It was manufactured as the successor to the Cooper T39. It competed in motor racing between 1959 and 1966, and was extremely successful, as well as being very competitive. It won 89 races, scored 136 podium finishes, and clinched 11 pole positions. It was powered by a Coventry Climax four-cylinder engine of varying displacements; those being 1,098 cc (67.0 cu in), 1,450 cc (88 cu in), and 2,000 cc (120 cu in).
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