Why please JWD is the Ballot overhauling the Sunbeam, and which Sunbeam?
JWd
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Based on sequential photos and results, but some guesswork. I think it likely that this is Lee Guinness in the Sunbeam, based on photos from library sources in contemporary journals. The KLG Sunbeam was IIRC no.16.
Bruce Dowell
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
I do not wish to question the comments made by JWd, but according to The Autocar, July 21st 1922 page 148. It says, A duel between Segrave’s Sunbeam and Vizcaya’s Bugatti. Have they got it wrong?
Guest
Friday, April 16, 2010
the car behind is without doubt a bugatti
JWd
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Believe the eyes of others! The Bugatti Strasburg 'cigare' T29/30, in common with the T30 chassis has a pair of much lighter dumb-irons with a cross-member that sits higher than that seen on this, the 2LS Ballot. The T30 chassis also has a crank hanging in the middle: no crank here. The Ballot chassis-member turns down deeply compared to the Bugatti and the Ballot has altogether heavier chassis members as visible here. There are numerous photos of the Ballot and the Bugatti cigares (aerodynamic cigar shaped 1922 bodies) in period racing. The only T29/30 that I have sat in had the radiator cap peeping through the cowl at 12 o'clock [it had a pear-shaped T30 core inside that cowl]. The 2LS Ballot still has my vote.
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One of the 2LS Ballots overhauling a Sunbeam
Why please JWD is the Ballot overhauling the Sunbeam, and which Sunbeam?
Based on sequential photos and results, but some guesswork. I think it likely that this is Lee Guinness in the Sunbeam, based on photos from library sources in contemporary journals. The KLG Sunbeam was IIRC no.16.
I do not wish to question the comments made by JWd, but according to The Autocar, July 21st 1922 page 148. It says, A duel between Segrave’s Sunbeam and Vizcaya’s Bugatti. Have they got it wrong?
the car behind is without doubt a bugatti
Believe the eyes of others! The Bugatti Strasburg 'cigare' T29/30, in common with the T30 chassis has a pair of much lighter dumb-irons with a cross-member that sits higher than that seen on this, the 2LS Ballot. The T30 chassis also has a crank hanging in the middle: no crank here. The Ballot chassis-member turns down deeply compared to the Bugatti and the Ballot has altogether heavier chassis members as visible here. There are numerous photos of the Ballot and the Bugatti cigares (aerodynamic cigar shaped 1922 bodies) in period racing. The only T29/30 that I have sat in had the radiator cap peeping through the cowl at 12 o'clock [it had a pear-shaped T30 core inside that cowl]. The 2LS Ballot still has my vote.