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International 1000 Km UK Fastest 100 mile Record Holders Austin Healey new cars • new parts The story of the NEW record breaking 100S RECORD BREAKING HEALEYS the original works story In 1953 Donald Healey had an ambition to take the On Aug 23rd 1954, supervised by the American The car needed to be able to sustain the long 24-hour endurance record. He used ‘standard Automobile club th e car set 83 National and distance record attempt and as such had to be production cars’ to take the production car records International Class D records driven by Donald fully functional. Parts had to be up to the task covering 3100 miles in 30 hours at an average Healey, George Eyston, Carroll Shelby, Mort which ruled out the use of any original components speed of 104.3 mph Goodall and Roy Jackson-Moore. A 24-hour that were not up to the job. average speed of 132.29 mph was set giving the In 1954 a new car was commissioned and dubbed During the development of this car many parts had equivalence of driving from New York to San ‘the Endurance car’. It was based on a standard to be sourced and in some cases remade to Francisco in a day! chassis that was prepared with a modified Weslake match the original. These are now available to designed cylinder head, 16 inch Dunlop peg drive Unfortunately the original car was scrapped shortly owners of the original 100S cars. wheels and Dunlop disc brakes (a first in after the records in the fifties as salt had taken its The ambition for this recreated car was to “exceed production sports cars). There were a number of toll and made it unsafe. all Healey non-supercharged records” which aerodynamic modifications with a small aero Healey e xpert Jeremy Welch recreated the 1954 means lapping around 150mph for at least 500 screen and head fairing, plus an air-cooled battery car based on a works lightweight chassis, this car miles. compartment in the right hand passenger seat and was built from scratch with a view to attempting an underbody streamlining. The car when tested was timed at 147.2 mph, a endurance record in 2009. promising start to the adventure of recreating a legend. This brochure shows how it was done. For detailed information go to: www.healeyendurance.com For parts go to:www.bighealey.co.uk The Healey Endurance car comes into the pits Bonneville 1954 Geoff Healey debriefs Roy Jackson Moore (helmet) whilst Donald Healey looks on 3 +44 (0) 1543 472244 RECORD BREAKERS the Welch story Early Welch/Brooke history - At the start of the 100 miles trial. Beckshill Speed Trials with Brooke cars. World marine records with Brooke marine. For detailed information go to: www.healeyendurance.com For parts go to:www.bighealey.co.uk The motoring history of Denis Welch He was able to see the possibilities of this The Motorsport stretches back many years. type of propulsion and from that day the Welch/Brooke Jeremy Welch’s great, great grandfather study of the petrol engine was one of his family are no John ‘Walter’ Brooke (known as the Old keenest interests. strangers to Governor) started business in 1874, at the His first personal experiment with an internal achievement tender age of 25. He had trained at Hogg’s combustion engine was in 1899, and the on the foundry, in Southwark, London, owned by resulting machine he believed represented competition his wife’s family and after a brief trip to the the birth of the three-cylinder internal stage either. They competed at the very USA set up a foundry and manufacturing combustion engine. earliest Beckshill Speed Trials and the family business in Lowestoft, England. firm had notable success with water speed Mawdesley was some inventor himself The firm records, taking the 1925 world record and registering patents for an automatic Two Jet supplying tender boats to the R AF for the conmmenced i Carburetter, the forerunner, of the present quite a modest Schneider trophy races and latterly built the day carburetter and a chain ‘change speed’ Virgin Atlantic challenger for Richard Branson. way, the gear box, an ingenious arrangement then business being used on most motor 'buses. Denis Welch followed in his Grandfather’s of a general footsteps in 1977. After a career in foundry nature, and Their first car work he switched to cars and built the most included castings and ironwork for the was tested in successful Healey racing business in the Fishing and Trawling Fleet which were of 1901 and put World. They have won just about everything course at that time all sailing vessels. on the market there is in Europe and the UK. Building ironwork, manufacturing machinery in 1902. The including steam retorts, bloater paste company had If it’s someone with a pedigree you machinery, and soldering machines for the 100 employees want to build your car, then at this time. This first car was of somewhat handling of both round and oval tins were Jeremy Welch has one of the best, also made, as well as lifts, hoists and unusual design with a 10hp 3-cylinder amateur greenhouse hot water systems. vertical engine mounted transversely under something you just can’t get in one On July 28th 1897 he incorporated the a very small bonnet it was driven by chains lifetime - over 110 years of motoring company J.W.Brooke and in 1899 they mated to an all chain gearbox. history and winning throughout. started to make internal combustion engines. In 1904 a six cylinder car was designed and It is, as they say ‘in the blood’. His son John ‘Mawdesley’ Brooke (known put on the market. The original engine was 5/ as the Governor) was on the board at the 3 8" bore, the car being described as 25- age of 22 and it was he who first took h.p. and was the World's Pioneer six- Family achievements have included: interest in this new phenomena in the year cylinder car, although it was disputed as to • The World Water Speed Record with a 1892, whilst sailing upon Oulton Broad. whether the six-cylinder Napier or the six- boat called ‘Bulldog’ in 1925 cylinder BROOKE took the road first, but He saw a boat undoubtedly the Firm built the first six- • Over 340 trophies for motor boat wins of about 16 cylinder Marine Motor. feet in length, • The European FIA championship with their with a box in A 40hp six own Healey in 1990 the centre of it, cylinder engine • The rebuilding of the 1965 Le Mans Austin coming was offered in Healey Sprite and its sister car returning to towards him at 1907. This was Le Mans 25 years later quite a respectable speed. There was no the hey day for smoke, and practically no noise and his Brooke motor • Rebuilding the legendary RWD132 original engineering instincts were at once cars, after works 100S in 2008/9 awakened to investigate this boat. 1913 as they started to concentrate more • Construction of many Healey on their marine business. The boat, known as ‘The Old Tub’ belonged championship winning cars to a Mr Estcourt and was fitted with a benzoline engine-the first engine sent over to the UK by Herr Gottleib Daimler. 5 +44 (0) 1543 472244 RECREATING HISTORY the story of a new car To faithfully recreate the world beating Healey paintwork was applied after verifying the colour the North American sales effort for British sports Endurance car, careful research was undertaken. with the late Geoff Healey shortly before his death. cars with n ames such as Aston Martin. Perhaps his most notable achievement was to introduce The start point was an original works lightweight Finally the detail that was so specific to the original Carroll Shelby to AC which resulted in the creation chassis which was examined and brought up to prototype car was carefully matched and verified of the legendary Cobra car. specification using our specialised modern jig. by Roy Jackson Moore one of the original record breaking drivers. As you can imagine after such a long time there This was then cloaked in an all aluminium body are many things that get re-interpreted and there is encompassing aerodynamic modifications as per Roy was the North American sales director for the nothing like an original competitor giving an on the the original works car. The mesmeric metallic green Healey works and went on to be a major part of spot, point of view to verify the real facts. For detailed information go to: www.healeyendurance.com For parts go to:www.bighealey.co.uk HEALEY ENDURANCE CAR 7 +44 (0) 1543 472244 RECREATING HISTORY a new car capable of taking on the world Once the bodywork was complete, attention was Peg drive hubs and the rear axle set up had not Our experience has helped produce a car that has directed towards the mechanical elements. The been made since the works days and were re- been extensively looked over by ex works desire to make a car that was capable of breaking made from CAD drawings. personnel and drivers, all of whom have given it a a record meant that every component had to be significant thumbs up approval. The engine was constructed from scratch using a up to the task. Some parts were simply not proven range of parts with adaptations made as The parts developed during this recreation have available and as the original car was a prototype per the original works performance enhancements been faithfully copied from the original and are a many had to be researched and remade from and dyno tested in-house.