1912 Clément-Bayard 8hp

This car took part in the Lancashire Automobile Club's Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in May 1987 and is pictured before the start of the Run in the Exchange Station car park in Manchester.

It's the 1912 Clément-Bayard 8hp entered by Hilda Moores of Denton, and the programme of the event had the following information about the vehicle:

1912 Clément-Bayard,

Reg: DS 7523  2 Cylinder  8 hp

(Hilda Moores, Denton, Manchester)

This two-seater was discovered derelict in 1984

and restoration is almost complete. The marque

competed in many early Grands Prix. A first for

the Manchester to Blackpool Run.

On 7 May 2017 I showed a photograph of a Clément-Bayard that I had taken at Oulton Park in 1992.

Austin 7

This is one of the cars taking part in the Lancashire Automobile Club's Manchester to Blackpool Veteran and Vintage Car Run in June 1993, and it's pictured at the start of the run at the Village Hotel, Cheadle, Stockport.

It's an Austin 7 Tourer with a 4-cylinder inline 747cc engine, and the only information about it in the programme of the event is that it's a 1929 Austin Sports entered by a Mrs Hilda Moores of Denton, Manchester, presumably the lady in the passenger seat. I can't tell whether the registration number is JG 351 or JG 851, but the DVLA record doesn't recognise either of those numbers.