1914 Tourist Trophy Sunbeams: (4 cylinders, 3.3 litres, 4 valves per cylinder, twin overhead camshafts, 94bhp@3000rpm). The only one with its original colour is the purple one, as this was the British racing colour for the 1914 TT. Photos: Mark Ballard
Monthly Archives: February 2013
Mike Scott’s Police Imp
Grampian Transport Museum
Thanks to Mike Scott for taking these photographs – I forgot my camera!
1922 TT Sunbeam
1922 Tourist Trophy Sunbeam of Julian Majzub (3 litre, 8 cylinder, twin overhead camshafts, 4 valves per cylinder, 108bhp@4000rpm). Photo: Mark Ballard
1922 TT Sunbeam
1922 TT Sunbeam of Tom Wheatcroft.
National Motor Museum – the Land Speed Record Sunbeams
National Motor Museum, Beaulieu
1000hp Sunbeam
Cutaway of the 1000hp Sunbeam. I’m unsure of the original source of this drawing, although it looks as though it may have come from an issue of The Autocar or The Motor.
1000hp Sunbeam on Daytona Beach
Thanks to Real Bosse in Canada for this photo of the?1000hp Sunbeam?record car on Daytona Beach.
Allen Cox’s veteran Sunbeam
Allen Cox in Australia is restoring this pre-WWI Sunbeam. The last photo shows it earlier in its life operating as a taxi in Bundaberg. Photos: Allen Cox