The Numbers Game

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From the best part of a century ago, a pair of Lucas "King of the Road" oil-fired lamps for car/cycle applications. Model 664.

Dare I say it, quite possibly more reliable and illuminating than some of their electrical successors…

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An obscure and short-lived manufacturer from Brescia - but a very high profile event.

Outright winner of the first Mille Miglia in 1927 the O.M. (Officine Meccaniche) 665 "Superba".

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Triple six…

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Pre-war DKW 700. Quite advanced for its day, independent suspension and a 2 stroke 685cc engine.

Styling was similar to the larger Horch. DKW & Horch were 2 of Audi’s 4 rings.

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Meanwhile, in Paris, Hotchkiss we’re producing the mighty 686, this one with a one-off Park Ward body.



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and with DRS open..

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The first of the Marches - JYS in the 701 at Jarama.

A car has exceeded track limits in the background but don't worry about that.

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..but I'd already lined up Ronnie in the 702 at Crystal Palace - in case you thought that motor racing in London was always about Formula E in the Docklands…

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Ms. Hannelore Werner in her March 703.

Sponsored by Eifelland caravans before they moved into F1 with an "interesting" March derivative (see later).

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You guessed it - March 707.

Only slightly smaller than the Boeing version.

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When March Engineering was launched they announced that they would be building a car for just about every racing category.

Understandably a lot of doubters - so there was an alternative suggestion as to the origin of the firm's name - Much Advertised Racing Car Hoax.

However they managed it remarkably - here's the Formula Ford March 708.

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gt40steve said:

Quiz time. Why is this my choice for 707 ?

Because, like Boeing, GT40's had an issue with unscheduled door opening ?!? It certainly happened to Ken Miles in the sister car to this one at Le Mans '66.

To remind me - this sits on the desk alongside my keyboard.








Incidentally - if/when we get to the millenium - GT40 chassis numbers will take us (with a small gap) from 1000 to 1114…..

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Aha, Boeing 707 windscreen wiper/motor, it had to be adapted as in aeronautical use it ran on 24V.

I believe that the Howmet turbine car had cockpit gauges from a 707 - so Hugh Dibley was very much at home when he drove it.

I'm out for the day now - so I'll leave you all to March engineering production types - and don't forget good old Stirling at 722.

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I'll just squeeze in the Eifelland (March) 721..

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and, naturally, at 722 :

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A proper m’cycle. As a student in London in the 70’s I aspired to one of these but had to make do with a Honda 70.

Bonneville T140. 744ccs.

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BMW 745 as a race car - S.Africa style.

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A firm favourite of mine. Big Healey SMO 746.

A works rally car, then a lightly modified race car. In John Gott’s ownership it became a brutish modsports car. I watched it race shortly before Gott’s tragic accident in 1972 only to then trip over it in rejuvenated form in the Portimao Paddock in 2022.

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A cross section of a 747 featuring an F1 safety car.

Work that one out.

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Brutus. A medieval La France chassis straddled by a 47 Litre V12 BMW aero engine.

A very modest 16 BHP/Litre equates to a total output of 748 BHP.