Unique Transporter at Jaguar Celebration

Towering over the displays of Jaguar sports and racing cars at Shelsley Walsh, when the Midland Automobile Club celebrate fifty years of the E-type, will be a unique and historic car transporter.
 
Built to celebrate the 1956/7 double triumph at the Le Mans 24 hour race by a little Scottish race team called Ecurie Ecosse, the truck features a streamlined body inspired by a shark.
 
It can carry three cars, one on the lower deck behind the crew’s living accommodation, and two more on an upper deck raised by hydraulic ramps.
 
It is powered by a very strange engine, an opposed piston diesel 2-stroke which has three cylinders and six pistons plus a supercharger.
 
As you can imagine, it makes a most unusual noise.
 
The transporter was rescued in a terrible state by Jaguar and Ecurie Ecosse enthusiast Dick Skipworth, and is now restored to perfect and original condition.
 
To see this amazing vehicle, as well as historic Jaguars thundering up the legendary Worcestershire hillclimb, you have to go to Shelsley Walsh on June 4th and 5th.

For more information, visit shelsley-walsh.co.uk.