User:Andy Dingley/My created pages/Sunbeam Tiger (4 litre)

Sunbeam 350HP
18.3litre V12 based on the Sunbeam Arab & Sunbeam Manitou engines

Back axle was differential-less

First seen at Brooklands 1920 in the hands of Harry Hawker

October Rene Thomas set a nerw record at the Gaillon hill climb

1922 Kenelm Lee Guinness broke the Brooklands lap record at 123.30 mph, then the LSR at 133.75 mph - last LSR at Brooklands

M Campbell at Saltburn & Fanoe, Danmark were frustrated as the hand-timing wasn't recognised.

October 1924, Campbell took the record to 146.36 mph at Pendine, then 150.87 in July 1925

As late as 1936, bandmaster Billy Cotton recorded 121.57 mph over km at Southport

Un-earthed in Lancashire during WW2 by Harold Pratley, who sold it to Beaulieu in 1958

V12 tohc 120 x 135mm, 18,322 cc

4 speed shaft drive

Foot transmission brake, rear hand

Half-elliptic springs all round

Sunbeam 1000HP
Simple cut-price machine, as STD were sdhort of cash. Hence chain drive with two Sunbeam Matabeles from a racing motorboat. One front, one rear. Compresed air start to the rear, then cross-starting by gears. Output 900hp

Dunlop tyres 200mph for 3 1/2 minutes. Chain guards added after Babs. Also strengthened undershield and roll bar. 25' long, 8' wide.

203.79 mph at Daytona by Segrave, 29 March 1927. Then only run once again; a slow one-egine lap of Brooklands. Preserved by Sunbeam and on display at Beaulieu since 1958.

4 ohc

122 bore x 160mm, 44,888 cc 8x magneto 3-speed

Side chains

Servo foot brake on 4 wheels, handbrake on rear.

Half-elliptic springs all round

Golden Arrow (land speed racer)
139.7 x 130.2mm 3 speed

Cub
1924 Sunbeam 2 litre

Unsupercharged tohc last British car to win international GP between 1923 and 1955; 1923 French at Tours, with Segrave at 75.3mph.

Blown versiomn of 1924/1925 less successful, although Segrave won at San Sebastian in 1924

Later campaigned by Kaye Don, who took 20 international class records 1928 - 1930.

Designed by Bertarione, formerly of FIAT and resembled their 1922 GP machine so closely they were nicknamed "FIATs in green paint".

Now owned by Chrysler and at Beaulieu.