Ecurie Ecosse

After David Bertram passed away, his daughter Sue found some interesting Ecurie Ecosse material on a couple of memory sticks.

The first was a presentation that appears to have been put together by Dick Skipworth for a get together at Beaulieu. The original file was well over 1gb in size and also had some of the pictures corrupted so I’ve replaced these with others and removed the embedded video files and created links to them.

In addition there were three number of movie files that could well have been made by David Murray himself as claimed in the early frames of 1952 Part 1:

The files were labelled 1950, 1952 and 1960 – 1962. These labels are clearly incorrect as the 1950 movie includes an Ecurie Ecosse D Type which would not be delivered for another 6 years!

I’ve stayed with the labelling and have split the files into smaller ones. This is what we have got … just click on the movie icon to access the movie:

1950 Part 1
Karting perhaps at the Old Meadowbank track in Edinburgh, a concours at North Berwick, XKD501 reg MWS301, the Nurburgring, delivery of the Commer chassis, XKD606 Reg RSF301, testing,
1950 Part 2
Loading the cars, Tojeiro Jaguar TAD reg 7GNO, Nurburgring, Taylorcraft Auster G-ANHO, Goodwood, Silverstone, Dennis Jenkinson, workshop
1950 Part 3
Silverstone, Moss, Le Mans start, the race, John Bolster, Masten Gregory, Autodromo de Buenos Aires
1950 Part 4
Buenos AIresand the voyage, skylarking on deck, getting thrown in the pool, Autodromo track
1952 Part 1
David Murray Moviemaker, Isle of Man – Ninian Sanderson raced the C Type XKC042 there on June 18 1952, Silverstone, Jersey, Goodwood, Sir James Scott-Douglas, Villa Marina, Oulton Park, Goodwood, Spain, boiling in the mountains
1952 Part 2
Murchison Motors tunes the cars carrie in this van, Silver City Airways, Dundrod, Desmond Titterington, XKD501 reg MWS301, Goodwood, Leinster, Rouen
1952 Part 3
Le Mans Win, Sebring Florida, 1000 Miglia, Kristianstad Sweden
1960 – 1962 Part 1
Jaguar engine botom end, Commer transporter, somewhere on the continent, Nurburgring perhaps, Watkins Glen
1960 – 1962 Part 2
Niagara Falls, Laguna Seca maybe, San Francisco, Silverstone
1960 – 1962 Part 3
Nurburgring, flying, Le Mans, Tojeiro, testing
1960 – 1962 Part 4
Tojeiro, Monzapolis at Monza – EE came 2nd with Jack Fairman and 3rd with Masten Gregory