#A058 by Amsterdam SOLVED: 1908 Hutton 26 hp Tourist Trophy racer

[Amsterdam]

When and what for one point

[Amsterdam]

Expert time for this one!

[Tom_I]

I recognised this as soon as I saw it, as this exact photograph appears in a book which I bought in the late 1960s!

This is a 1908 Hutton 26 hp Tourist Trophy racer, one of three built to compete in the Isle of Man TT race of that year. Despite the name the cars were designed and built by Napier.

For the 1908 TT, the Royal Automobile Club introduced a regulation on engine size, restricting it to a maximum cylinder bore of 4 inches (10.2 cm) in a four-cylinder engine. For this reason it became known as the "four-inch race". The story goes that S.F. Edge, who was Napier's principal sales agent and publicist, had for a long time been publicly extolling the virtues of six-cylinder engines, and did not want a four-cylinder car being raced under the Napier name. Napier therefore acquired the name of J.E. Hutton Ltd. of Thames Ditton, Surrey, a small manufacturer which had ceased car production in 1905, and the cars were entered in the race as Huttons.

I believe that the car in the photo is the one which won the race, driven by William Watson, and covering the 337.5 mile course at an average speed of 50.25 mph.

[Amsterdam]

 

Well done!!!. complete and detailed answer..

Point is yours!