Riley 9 Brooklands

A Cyclekart before its time...

In my search for Riley inspiration I stumbled across this photo of a scaled down Riley 9 Brooklands. This car was built sometime in the 1930's and featured a working engine.

I managed to track down the source of the photo as the Cotswolds Motor Museum in the UK. They had the following info along with the period photo shown. Very cool...

This fully working model of the famous Brooklands Riley was once owned by Peter Maclure (pictured), whose father Gustave was an engineer for Rolls Royce and Riley and brother Percy was a famous Riley racing driver. Percy Maclure had established an impressive reputation with Riley and, if it had not been for his untimely death at the age of 37, he may have gone on to be one of Britain’s greatest drivers. The Maclures had a large garden with a track so Peter took every opportunity to practice his driving skills. Peter and the ‘Baby’ Brooklands Riley participated in a number of events during the 1930s. Most significantly Peter, aged 10, set the track record for miniature cars at Donnington on Coronation Day in 1937.