1934 Maserati 8CM

This was one of the competitors in the Richard Seaman Memorial Historic Trophy Race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's meeting at Oulton Park in June 1970.

It's the 1934 Maserati 8CM of Bill Summers and has a 2,995cc supercharged straight-8 engine. The car, chassis number 3013, originally belonged to Earl Howe and the programme of the event says this about it:

'.....another 8CM Maserati, driven by Bill Summers. Once the property of the late Gavin Maxwell, author of "Ring of Bright Water" and other books, this car has just been restored by Bill Summers with monoposto bodywork, and this is its first appearance at a V.S.C.C. meeting.'

1922 Diatto 20

This car competed in a scratch race and a handicap race at the Vintage Sports Car Club's Richard Seaman Memorial Trophies Race Meeting at Oulton Park in August 1992.

It's the 1922 Diatto 2 litre of Bill Summers, and the only information about it in the programme of the event is that it has a 1,991cc engine. It appears to be a Diatto 20 with a single overhead camshaft 4-cylinder inline engine.

Maserati 6CM

This was one of the competitors in the Richard Seaman Memorial Historic Trophy Race at the VSCC's meeting at Oulton Park in July 1987.

It's the 1937 Maserati 6CM of W H (Bill) Summers which was originally built with a six-cylinder inline engine of 1,493cc with a Roots type supercharger. The programme of the event, however, says that this car has a supercharged engine with a capacity of 1,972cc.

Here's the car during the race at Lodge Corner.

I've previously featured photographs of the Maserati 6CM on 27 March 2013 and 30 June 2015.